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" Anybody who loves what they do, they're constantly doing it all the time. So I'm constantly working. "

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" I truly believe that if I'm out partying and not in the studio, there's somebody out there who will be. When I'm asleep, somebody else is working. So, I have a lot of sleepless nights. "

" Success doesn't make you happy. "

" I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper. "

" Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key. "

" I'm not just going to get a deal; I'm going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No I.D. to Def Jam, I got full creative control, the money was great, the contract was good, and I got to create the album that I wanted. "

" You can't put my talents in a box because my talents have put me in a mansion, and I'll be damned if anybody in the world can tell me what I can or cannot do, because they're scared to do it themselves. "

" It's really cool to come from nothing and essentially be a nobody and make yourself somebody. "

" Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more. "

" I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician. "

" Ever since I was a little kid, I would always rap. I just loved it. But when I really got into it seriously was when I saw 'Kill Bill.' "

" I have seven brothers and sisters, and I'm the only one who looks white because my mother has had children by all black men, and then my father has children with other women as well. "

" Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines. "

" People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through? "

" I was a little nervous that people wouldn't take to 'Under Pressure,' because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious '90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn't rap about my life much. "

" I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company. "

" I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight. "

" I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world. "

" I'm proud to be black and white and look the way I look. I'm proud to not speak down on women or glorify things that are unimportant. "

Black And White

" I wake up every day, make awesome music with awesome people, and tour the world, which is incredible. "

" When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally. "

" My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time. "

" On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father. "

" All I've done since I was young was hone my craft. "

" Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major... You bring these people together and let them all cook. "

" Drake doesn't realize, in many ways, he was like the big brother I never had. He set the example and paved the way for me to be myself. Now, whether I'm at the Grammys or whether I'm here or there or whatever, he'll show me love... People don't realize what that's like, what that means. "

" I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.' "

" I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself. "

" I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost. "

" On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist. "