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Creativity Quote by Puff Daddy

"It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support"

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Fame, in Puff Daddy's telling, isn’t a throne so much as a treadmill: “draining” turns celebrity from privilege into a kind of low-grade exposure sickness. The line lands because it treats the media not as a mirror but as a weather system you’re forced to live inside. “In the papers every day” signals a time when tabloid visibility was both currency and punishment, a pre-social-media era where you couldn’t “log off” your reputation. You were printed, packaged, and re-sold at scale.

The pivot - “So I was like, I’m gonna come back here” - is the key power move. He’s narrating a strategic retreat that doubles as a rebrand: stepping out of the surveillance zone and into a controlled room. “Here” implies a venue where he can set the terms: a show, a hometown, a fan-facing space. It’s crisis PR rendered as intimacy.

Then comes the human shield of appreciation. “I want to talk to all the people, the fans” reframes a possibly defensive maneuver as a communal one. Fans become both witness and alibi: if the public narrative has gotten ugly or exhausting, the loyal audience offers a cleaner storyline. Gratitude isn’t just manners; it’s insulation. He’s reminding everyone that behind the headlines is an artist with a constituency - and in pop culture, a constituency is leverage.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Daddy, Puff. (2026, January 15). It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-just-gets-draining-on-a-person-being-in-the-159520/

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Daddy, Puff. "It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-just-gets-draining-on-a-person-being-in-the-159520/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-just-gets-draining-on-a-person-being-in-the-159520/. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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Puff Daddy (born November 4, 1970) is a Musician from USA.

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