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" My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood. "

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" I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment. "

" 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. "

" I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. "

" I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. "

" If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. "

" The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. "

" 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. "

" I need to keep working on myself for a while. "

" Rap was my drug. "

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

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

" You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this. "

" I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. "

" Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge. "

" Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. "

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

" Guns are bad, I tell you. "

" I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it. "

" I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now. "

" Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. "

" Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble! "

" Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have? "

" A lot of truth is said in jest. "

" It's just hard to meet new people, in my position. "

" It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter. "

" I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little. "

" As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty. "

" A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' "