Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

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

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

It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life."

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

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.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!