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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. "

" I have to grow with my audience. "

" When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. "

" 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. "

" I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring. "

" I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. "

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

" 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible. "

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

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

" When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.' "

" 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. "

" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "

" 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. "

" 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 competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. "

" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "

" 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. "

" I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. "

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

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

" An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. "

" 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. "