Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.