Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Success has always been the greatest liar, and the 'work' itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised in his creation to the point where he is unrecognizable.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.