"You have to be intimate with a person to know that person."
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"I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere."
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"The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love."
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"My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well."
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"Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?"
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"I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have."
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"I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice."
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"Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life"
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"Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music."
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"I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read."
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"I got 6 jobs I don't get TIRED!"
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"I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me."
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"Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent."
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"I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out."
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"I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it."
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"I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have."
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"A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music."
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