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" 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. "

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" Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. "

" 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 want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically. "

" I need drama in my life to keep making music. "

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

" 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. "

" I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. "

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

" I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have? "

" 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. "

" I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. "

" I'm not really book-smart. "

" 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. "

" Guns are bad, I tell you. "

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

" These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder. "

" Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour. "

" Honestly, I never really put the mic down. "

" I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it. "

" I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it. "

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

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

" I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now. "

" You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. "

" 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. "