I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.