Musician

I'm just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That's what a real winner is.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

There are people that are doing things that I would've never even thought possible.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

Slim Thug and Z-Ro can make a record together, and even Flip and T.I. can make a record together, but there's a difference between that and Flip and T.I. holding hands and being friends. When people say they want these records, they mean that they want us all to be friends.

I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.

Sometimes I'll do something when I'm tired at night, and it'll sound hot. But in the morning, when I'm wide awake, I'll listen again and think it's way off. Nobody else would notice it, but I'm like, I've got to fix that!

Not everything works for everybody.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel with 'Venom.' I'm not trying to go too far to the left or too far to the right. Sometimes I step outside the box and it might lose people a little bit, so this time I'm going straight up the middle. I'm coming with some hard stuff.

Timbaland uses a lot of Indian music and that has certainly familiarised me about the music of India.

Celebrities need to be talking to the people who are their greatest fans.

I've watched the dynamics of music completely change to where we've sold tapes, we've sold CDs, then everything started becoming 'music is free' now. In a perfect world, Napster wouldn't have come along. But the world isn't perfect, and when it changes, you have to adapt.

Don't let evil agendas turn us against each other.

Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

Hotels are nice and everything, but there's no place like home.

I got kicked out of my father's home because of my feelings towards hip-hop.