You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

Money is important, but I gotta like the song to play it. I won't just jump on anything because someone asked me to jump on it. I'm a musican. I love music. I gotta like it and feel comfortable with it.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

You never know what's gonna be a hit.

I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.