It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

I just respect Kanye as an artist.

I view myself as a male artist.