Nick Cannon says he decides which of his partners to sleep with based on who calls him that day

• Nick Cannon has fathered 12 kids with 6 women.
• He told the Los Angeles Times that he keeps clothes at all his partners' homes.

Nick Cannon, who's fathered 12 children with six different women, says he has a system to decide which partner he stays with.

"A lot of times it's whichever of them has called me that day, to be honest," Cannon told the Los Angeles Times. "I am such a creature of habit. I like who like me."

Cannon also said he sometimes charts the route to drop off his many children with his partners and stays with whoever's house he arrives at last.

Cannon has homes in New Jersey and Temecula, California, and will soon have a place in Joshua Tree, per the Los Angeles Times.

The TV host also told the Los Angeles Times that because he has so many children, he's carved out space in his office for a nursery, complete with a ball pit and many toys. As for why he's had so many children, he said he was a people-pleaser and wanted to give the women in his life the kids they wanted.

"A lot of them are in the same age group," Cannon said of his romantic partners. "And I just wanted to give them what they desired. I kept saying, 'I can handle it.'"

Cannon has children with the pop legend Mariah Carey, the DJ Abby De La Rosa, and four models: Alyssa Scott, Brittany Bell, Bre Tiesi, and Lanisha Cole.

In March, Cannon said he wished he'd had a baby with his ex-girlfriend and former costar, Christina Milian. In April, Cannon said it'd be "amazing" to have a baby with Taylor Swift after he heard she was single again.

And Cannon might not be done yet: In February, he said he would let God decide when he should stop having kids.

Representatives for Cannon did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.