I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.