The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.

You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.

I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.