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Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

I drop free music because I want people to know I'm still working. I want people to know I'm working and making my money independently. I don't want to charge for a mixtape; I'd rather charge for an album and really give something to my fans.

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

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.