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" Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business. "

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" Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right? "

" Like books and black lives, albums still matter. "

" The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play. "

" It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street. "

" I record all the time. "

" What's missing from pop music is danger. "

" Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on. "

" My hair is capable of doing a lot of different things. "

" Well, my musicians are my friends. "

" I might just stop talking again and not do interviews. "

" Each audience is different. "

" Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys. "

" YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left. "

" I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. "

" I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros. "

" When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. "

" No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me. "

" The internet's completely over. "

" There's a dark side to everything. "

" Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you. "

" Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. "

" My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me. "

" When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus. "

" When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to. "

" People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know? "

" When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is. "

" I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double. "

" I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive. "