"I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else."
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"I'm making sure to cover all the bases. Like, I've always wanted a leather jacket like Michael Jackson's in "Thriller" since I was a kid. I'm trying to incorporate a lot of elements of pop culture that I've always revered or was really into when I was young."
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"The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle."
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"Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers."
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"A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes."
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"Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with."
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"You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth."
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"I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid."
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"I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music."
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"Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys its a package. You like a woman, shes got kids, its a package. You cant just go in one-sided. Its pretty cool."
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"I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids."
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"Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet."
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"It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show."
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"Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you."
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"Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear."
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"Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues."
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"I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment."
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"To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life."
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"Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself."
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"Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself."
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