This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I'm doing films, but music is my first love.

To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world.

[It influenced the music] in our own little way, just with the Ragtime feel. It's Hip-Hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?,

I called Jermaine [Dupri, artist/producer and head of black music at Virgin], and it was on.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.