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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.