I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

The journey after Katrina, it opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. Coming from a rooftop to going to Hollywood and around the world, internationally teaching people about bounce music, definitely God is good and amazing about what he can do with your life.

I started travelling doing shows everywhere to make people feel like a sense of New Orleans wherever they may be.

I come from the city of New Orleans where it's live and vibrant.

No one can predict what God is going to do.

About 1998, my best friend, Katey Red, was the first transsexual male to come out with bounce music. And I background Katey for about two years. And then that's when the game totally switched when me and Katey jumped in it.

Everyone has a butt. No matter what size it is, you can work it.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

Beyonce has a platform; what's a better way to speak on your platform than through your music?

I'm a beast in the kitchen.

Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.

I'm comfortable with who I am.

Duffy is go hard or go home. It's just a concept that I wanted to have when we're doing different things. When me and my dancers go in, we usually go hard or we go home. We're not here to play. We go duffy.

Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.

There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just because I'm a gay artist, they don't have to put it in a category or label it.

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

If I'm just trying to get to different levels... and it takes levels to get to levels, and I just have to do what I have to do to keep on climbing the charts and getting where I need to be.

I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.

Me and Drake and all his people hung out. I had the whole club jumping.

I still feel like there are so many things that I have to do to really become an icon. I've done a lot and laid down a lot of groundwork, but there's so much more work to be done. There's a lot more that I want to do, LGBTQ centers that I want to open. After I leave my legacy, then I will be that icon.

Once I started rapping, I had to start dancing more. I had to really use my craft, and take everything I did for fun and put it into my professional shows.

I've always liked to dance.