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Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

- Drake

Journey, Sometimes, Teaches, Lot

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

- Drake

Moving On, Over, Getting, Interaction

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

- Drake

Myself, Like, Allowed, Brown

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

- Drake

Cool, My Friend, Genuinely, Jay-Z

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

- Drake

Play, Fifty, Crowd, Bars

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.

- Drake

Big, Ryan, Read, Big Fan

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

- Drake

Strong, Words, Shaped, Reviews

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

- Drake

Need, Album, Indie, Label

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

- Drake

Measure, Anymore, Crushed, Grammys

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

- Drake

Green, Always, Al, Documented

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

- Drake

Go, Very, According, Publications

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

- Drake

Business, Wealthy, Studios, Rappers

'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

- Drake

Percent, Away, Hundred, Perfection

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

- Drake

Like, Sweaters, Guess, Sweater

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

- Drake

I Write, Aspects, Lot, Verse

I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.

- Drake

Challenges, Someone, Going, Confrontational

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

- Drake

Artist, West, Kanye, None

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

- Drake

Charming, Naturally, Dad, Great Writer

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image.

- Drake

Love, Other, Image, Tattoos

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

- Drake

Give, Sometimes, Gut, Wrenching

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

- Drake

Taking Risks, Feel, About, Taking

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.

- Drake

Will, Might, Boo, Noise

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

- Drake

Love, Records, Becoming, Harder

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

- Drake

Him, Anymore, Dad, Disappointed

Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection.

- Drake

New, Always, Rebuild, Calling

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

- Drake

Heart, Wake Up, Closet, Skeletons

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

- Drake

Me, Important, Confident, Care

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

- Drake

Road, City, Someone, Moving

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

- Drake

Song, Think, I Think, Authentic

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

- Drake

Modeling, Other, Ideal, Driven

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