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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."
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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."
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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
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"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."
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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."
Humor
"A lot of truth is said in jest."
Truth
"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."
Life
"Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person."
People
"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."
Music
"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"
Dumb
"I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically."
Artist
"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap."
Fact
"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."
Mom
"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening."
Wonder
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