I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.