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

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" The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. "

" 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 going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. "

" 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. "

" The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "

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

" I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am. "

" I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it. "

" Guns are bad, I tell you. "

" I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it. "

" Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge. "

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

" I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. "

" I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad. "

" You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. "

" I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? "

" I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic. "

" 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. "

Freedom Of Speech

" You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them. "

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

" A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' "

" Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' "

" I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap. "

" I'm very much a creature of habit. "