Ice T

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 think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

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

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