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" I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people. "

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" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "

" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "

" I tell my sons, I say, if you're going somewhere, you don't have to wear a hoodie - we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. "

" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "

" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "

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" I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped. "

" Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that. "

" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "

" If I'm a cop, and every time I see a young black youth - whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out - and they're not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day - things that a man does - you're going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. "

" As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it. "

" When Def Jam wanted to sign Method Man, they wanted to sign Method Man and Old Dirty. And Old Dirty wanted to be on Def Jam - everybody, that was like the dream label. But if I had Old Dirty and Method Man on Def Jam, that's two key pieces going in the same direction, whereas there's other labels that needed to be infiltrated. "

" If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them. "

" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "

" I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination. "

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" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "

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" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "

" A lot of people don't know this about Wu-Tang, it started from a focused mind. I was given total autonomy to do whatever I want with them... They agreed, to me, to be a dictator for five years. And in those five years, it's considered some of our best work. "

" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "