Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.