You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.

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

Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.