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" I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. "

Ice T

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" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

" I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about. "

" My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. "

" So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage. "

Ice T

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Mean

" So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. "

" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "

" The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. "

" I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?! "

" Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group. "

" When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting. "

" I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. "

Ice T

Better

Writing

" I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. "

" I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. "

" A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. "

" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "

" Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. "

" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "

" Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. "

" As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real. "

" AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. "

" No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things. "

Ice T

Always

Stay

" Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. "

" If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting. "

" I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "

" As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. "

" Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. "

" If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. "

Ice T

Make

Movie

" I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. "

" Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad. "

" Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. "