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" 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?' "

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" I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with. "

" I don't follow waves or trends or emotions. "

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" When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind. "

" My attention span is very short. "

" 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. "

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" Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. "

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" I'm like a mama's boy and stuff. "

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" If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off. "

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" I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. "

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

" I have ADHD. I'll admit it. "

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" I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes. "

" I'm a fan of X-men. "

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" I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.' "

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" Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it. "

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" When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers. "

" 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. "

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" Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? "

" 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. "

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