A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.