I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

When I'm lovin' these hoes, there ain't no love involved.