"I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas."
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"If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world."
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"You have the power to let power go"
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"I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad."
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"I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe i'm not actually a huge douche..."
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"I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest."
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"I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007."
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"I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums."
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"I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."
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"I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!"
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"Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure."
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"Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby."
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"I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music."
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"It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn."
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"I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!"
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"I know I'm the most influential."
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"The media crucify me like they did Christ."
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"I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight….You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet."
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"I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of."
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"I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?"
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