Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I know somebody in every culture.

I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.