You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

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.

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.