People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

Know when to lie to your kids.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems.