"I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter."
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"Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing."
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"I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down."
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"Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life"
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"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."
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"Jealousy’s a weak emotion."
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"[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts."
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"I believe you can speak things into existence."
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"I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs."
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"It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think."
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"There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be."
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"[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you."
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"Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?"
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"I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over."
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"Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came."
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"Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music."
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"Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough"
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"No matter where you go, you are what you are playa."
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"Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all."
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"We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history"
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