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

" 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. "

" Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time. "

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

" 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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" Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. "

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

" Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. "

" 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.' "

" I'm not really book-smart. "

" The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. "

" I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. "

" The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. "

" A lot of truth is said in jest. "

" I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. "

" 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. "

" Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. "

" Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me. "

" Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. "

" I've been running a lot, taking care of myself. "

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

" My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it. "

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

" The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids. "