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I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

James Morrison just had a new album come out and I think he's incredible. I'd love to work with him, his voice is insane.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

There are definitely a lot of creative people I want to work with. I wanna work with Drake!

I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big hits for Barry Manilow. So two guys who inspired me to write lyrics are now teaching me to write.