Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].