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I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.