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" My greatest competition is, well, me. "

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" I have to say, it was fun doing this 'Love Letter' album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forevermore, it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person. "

" When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. "

" I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music. "

" Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood. "

" My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin. "

" Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true. "

" When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk. "

" In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also. "

" When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join. "

" I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director. "

" No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer. "

" I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people. "

" As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood. "

" I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "

" I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album. "

" If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well. "

" I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd. "

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" Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?' "

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" Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love. "

" Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around. "

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" In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels. "

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" When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up. "

" Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head. "

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