I don't believe in writing people off.

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.