TORY LANEZ

I love 50 Cent. I know it sounds weird 'cause a lot of kids might not say that right now, but I definitely want to work with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Coldplay: I want to work with different artists that are going to push my music to a new level. Not just in urban music.

We just want to be No. 1. Is there a problem with that? Can I be the best? Can y'all watch me be great? Will y'all allow me to do that?

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.

Drake could diss me 20,000 times, and I would never diss him. I'm a fan.

It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.

I'm just a young kid.

The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.

Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.

I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.

I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.

You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.

I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.

I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and it's just amazing and unpredictable and spontaneous every single time. It's the most cultivating incredible performance that you can go and see live for the amount of money that you can see it for.

I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.

'I Told You' is for all the people who've been doubted, the underdogs.

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

I know why I'm here. I know why I was placed in music, and it's not by coincidence.

I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.

I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.

Everyone is friends with each other, and you have to like what's hot. You have to do all these things as if there's no real feelings. As if you can't dislike something any more. We all just have to be buddy-buddy.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

I would like to work with The Weeknd. That's my boy, though; that's my friend.