When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

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've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.

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.