"The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do."
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"I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little."
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"When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind."
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"I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road."
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"My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix."
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"God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to."
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"Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities."
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"I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody."
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"Hip-Hop started out in the heart"
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"I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old."
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"I had an economic system imposed on me."
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"When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling."
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"Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is."
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"I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics."
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"I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love."
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"Hypocrites always wanna play innocent"
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"I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray."
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"I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity."
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"When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school."
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"Never underestimate those who you scar."
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