Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.