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

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.