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.

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.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

Winners have to absorb losses.

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

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.