"Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you."
"When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down."
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Source: Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.206, Random House Group
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