I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

I got a chance to work with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh and Juvenile and all these people as I was growing up, and so that really influenced everything I do.

Everything is a learning experience for me.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.

I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.