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" Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value. "

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" 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. "

" Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff. "

" I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know. "

" My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. "

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

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

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

" The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. "

" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "

" I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative. "

" You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. "

" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's. "

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

" I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore. "

" I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. "

" I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do. "

" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "