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" Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. "

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" My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be. "

" I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. "

" I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it. "

" I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment. "

" As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty. "

" To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway. "

" When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. "

" I didn't just invent saying offensive things. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "

" Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. "

" There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'. "

" I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.' "

" I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. "

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" My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. "

" Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. "

" Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it. "

" The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. "

" If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. "

" When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. "

" I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little. "

" Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. "

" I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything. "

" When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. "

" I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything. "

" I'm not really book-smart. "

" It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter. "

" Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. "

" It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people. "

" My only scheme was to be a rapper. "

" Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. "