When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.