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

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

" Guns are bad, I tell you. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 was a smart kid, but I hated school. "

" If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "

" Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. "

" Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. "

" Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me. "

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

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