The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

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.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

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