My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

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

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.