People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

People are just really overreacting. It's just feel good music. We at Virgin are in no way promoting sex or whatever these media outlets continue to print.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.