Quotes from E-40

Me and Master P go way back.

I'm the most humblest guy you can ever talk to or meet.

I feel like I'm a voice of hope.

My voice gon' stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.

I paint pictures with my raps.

I don't wanna be like everybody else, I don't wanna rap like everybody else.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

When I had my house in '96, I had a Warriors basketball court built.

I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.

The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.

I might like the Sacramento Kings. One of my favorite players is Dirk Nowitzki.

I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.

I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.

In the '80s, I wore these glasses because I was trying to look like a square to outsmart the po-po, you feel me? It was what we call 'throw off methods.' So I wear little glasses.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are going to pick up on.

Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.

The West ain't been the same without 'Pac.

A lot of people - they might think I fell off, but they don't know I'm eating. I'm on the West coast, eating. It's just they don't hear about me because they don't see me on the TV. But I'm still around.

The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.