I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.