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" The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it. "

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" I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. "

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" To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway. "

" Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found. "

" 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. "

" There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'. "

" If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. "

" There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know. "

" I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. "

" My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be. "

" I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic. "

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

" When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. "

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

" 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. "

" If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters. "

" I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically. "

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

" Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. "

" Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business. "

" Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. "

" I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it. "

" Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. "

" Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. "

" When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. "

" Honestly, I never really put the mic down. "

" 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.' "

" I was a smart kid, but I hated school. "

" 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. "

" I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it. "

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