rose grows from concrete

I saw an interview with Tupac once—he was a huge influence on my life—where he said if you see a rose growing in concrete, you'll stop and look at it. It could be the most incredible thing you've ever seen, and instead of wondering how this rose grows from concrete, all you want to talk about is how the stem leans to the side and the petals are dried up. The fact that the rose is growing from concrete isn't enough to amaze you, you want to pick out all of the things that are wrong with it.

Eminem on an interview with Rolling Stone magazine from this link