I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.