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].

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 was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.