Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.

As far as the fans, I always say it because it's the truth: without them I'm absolutely nothing.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

I think that the reason my records are able to live forever in the club is because I actually like to be in the club. I don't go to the club to do VIP or get bottles or nothin' - I go to the club, I enjoy the people, I see what the people are vibin' off, and I see what makes me go crazy in the club also, and that has a lot of influence on what I bring to the table when I'm thinking of making a big club record.

I'm so passionate about making good music.

There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.