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" I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do. "

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" I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. "

" I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. "

" I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning. "

" I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know? "

" I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery. "

" I can't control what people think. They know who I am. "

" Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand. "

" Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. "

" Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. "

" Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them. "

" The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. "

" I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. "

" I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up. "

" 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back. "

" Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. "

" Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down. "

" I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better. "

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" Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot. "

" You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. "

" I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. "

" My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. "

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