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" I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could. "

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" I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day. "

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" When I went to college, I made my first mixtape, and Sean gave me three verses for it. That was a big reason anyone ever listened to my music. I definitely wouldn't be talking to you now if it wasn't for Big Sean. "

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" If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still. "

" There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things. "

" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "

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" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "

" If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it. "

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" I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on. "

" My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more. "

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" A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined. "