Do you feel like your success lets you experiment a little more with your solo work or are you just writing the same stuff for yourself that you would for other people?
A lot of it is just stuff that I like, you know? I’m not gonna write a song that I wouldn't like. Like my next song, with Zendaya and Jeremih, I wrote it with J.Lo in mind and her label passed on it. So I was like OK this song's good, I'm gonna keep it for myself. That's how I operate.
But like, J.Lo's A&R passed on it but I let J.Lo's manager hear it after I already made it my song and they were like "what the hell?" … she got super mad at the record label for passing on it … you gotta know how good a song is yourself before anybody else does.
