You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

Inside I'll always be an outsider

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.

The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit