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

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

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.

Winners have to absorb losses.

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.

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.