I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

You cant get much whiter than me.

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

One thing that's never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.

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 don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.