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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I'm writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

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I think we should not control the Internet.

I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

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