I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.