If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.