I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".

If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play.

The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.

I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.

I can move around the way I want to. It's a beautiful thing. I don't know how long it'll last, but I'll certainly take advantage of it and try to be part of shifting and shaping the culture and preserving it.

I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."