The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

My wife keeps me sharp. You know, she ain't going to let me get comfortable with this "Ice Cube" stuff.

The police don't look at you as long when they drive past. Sometimes they don't look at you at all. In South Central, you've got them looking and lurking. I think it's basic harassment. It's part of their tactics to have everybody nervous of them. In the valley, at least I don't feel it the same way.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.