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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. "

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

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

" You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. "

" 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. "

" Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. "

" 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. "

" I need to keep working on myself for a while. "

" Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. "

" I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.' "

" I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing. "

" I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. "

" Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. "

" The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "

" Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. "

" My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it. "

" It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them. "

" Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing. "

" I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap. "

" Touring is hard on the body. "

" 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. "

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

" Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. "

" I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. "

" I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. "

" 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'. "

" 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.' "

" Rap was my drug. "