I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.