Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.”

That's the note. Word for word. And I know it's word for word because I wrote it dozens of times before delivering it. I'd write it, throw it away, write it, crumple it up, throw it away.

But why was I writing it to begin with? I asked myself that question every time I printed the words onto a new sheet of paper. Why was I writing this note? It was a lie. I hadn't been thinking about it. Not really. Not in detail. The thought would come into my head and I'd push it away.

But I pushed it away a lot.


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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i...
JAY-Z
I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ...
JAY-Z
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
JAY-Z
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That&#...
JAY-Z
I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different...
JAY-Z
All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the...
JAY-Z
It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You...
JAY-Z
I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
JAY-Z
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th...
JAY-Z
I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a hu...
JAY-Z
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
JAY-Z
Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
JAY-Z
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort...
JAY-Z
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of...
JAY GRIFFITHS
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
JAY-Z
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court sh...
JAY-Z
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d...
JAY GRIFFITHS
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire ...
JAY-Z
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two cent...
JAY PARINI
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M...
JAY-Z
The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - ...
JAY PARINI
You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You wa...
JAY CUTLER
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
JAY MCSHANN