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" Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. "

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" We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it. "

" Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other. "

" Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. "

" I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production. "

" I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones. "

" All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. "

" I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel. "

" You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. "

" I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14. "

" Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields? "

" I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised. "

" I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. "

" I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.' "

" For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success. "

" Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. "

" Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. "

" I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud. "

" Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. "

" I know I got angels watchin me from the other side. "

" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "

" It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition. "

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

" Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible. "

" I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. "

" Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it? "

" Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go. "

" This dark diction has become America's addiction. "

" It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs. "

" People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people. "

" My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe. "