As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

You have girls that sing about guys ain't paying their bills and men are this and men are that and I write about women who want to go out for free, they don't want to pay for the dinner, they try to get over, they wanna leave.

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.

The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.