Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.

There are a lot of things going on that's causing a lot of these young kids to head in the wrong direction. I know a lot of kids that are cutting school. I try to give out a positive message, trying to get kids focused. If they don't then they're going to end up like every other hoodlum in the street.

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.