I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.