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" I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic. "

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" It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs. "

" Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way. "

" I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid. "

" I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised. "

" Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. "

" I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do. "

" In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. "

" I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic. "

" I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud. "

" My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe. "

" I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory. "

" Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all. "

" I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities. "

" In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. "

" It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition. "

" Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. "

" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "

" I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things. "

" It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight. "

" Nothing in life is promised except death. "

" If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. "

" Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. "

" I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it. "

" Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them. "

" I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy. "

" Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. "

" There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people. "

" If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. "

" All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. "

" If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed. "