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" When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. "

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" People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. "

" Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me. "

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

" I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A lot of truth is said in jest. "

" I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? "

" The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. "

" Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' "

" I've been running a lot, taking care of myself. "

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

" Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. "

" 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. "

" As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty. "

" A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. "

" I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. "

" You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this. "

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

" Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person. "

" The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids. "

" Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. "

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

" 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'. "

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

" I'm very much a creature of habit. "

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

" 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. "