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" Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business. "

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" If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house. "

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" There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is. "

" I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.' "

" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma. "

" Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring. "

" I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich. "

" I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad. "

" If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. "

" There's an entry point to any relationship. "

" I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. "

" Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan. "

" What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront. "

" The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music. "

" I don't despise people. "

" I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it. "

" I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. "

" Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time. "

" I can procrastinate a little bit. "

" You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. "

" I am hip-hop! "

" My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude. "

" Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas. "

" Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. "

" There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?' "

" Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. "

" My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. "