Quotes from E-40

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

I just respect people and mind my business. I don't got time to worry about what the next man's pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.

I had a song back in 1992 talking about 'It's all good.' Then my partner Theo who used to work for 92.3 The Beat in L.A. started saying 'You know it's all good' on the radio and everybody took it back to their soils like that was the new Cali word. But that's a regular word form the Bay Area.

In the early '90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we'd pow wow - a good dude, you know?

I always stay humble. I don't act funny towards nobody.

I had every major label in the world - I mean, any label that dealt with rap music wanted to sign me. I ended up going with Jive Records because I liked everything about 'em.

You know, I don't turn down autographs. I try to sign as many autographs as I can.

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

Communication, that keeps everything cool. Not holding anything back, you got to tell each other what's on your mind, that's really it. Otherwise when one gets mad at one, it can burst and you just let it out and it can just come out wrong.

I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.

There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.

For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

When I was in the marching band, I used to take my snare drum and turn it over and use my drumstick and scratch on the other side. That was just being creative.

When you do mixtapes, a lot of times your fanbase can say, 'We've been getting this for free for so many years, his new album is about to drop, we've listened to it, and we're not going to buy it. We'll download it for free.'

I've got a big heart and I believe in good karma.

I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.

I'm glad I'm setting an example for the younger generation so in the future they can say, 'Look how long E-40's rap career was. Look how long he stayed relevant.'

I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.

I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.

I got a solid fan base and they love me and I love them. They know I'ma give them what they want to hear.

You know, Tupac would go into the studio and make like six or seven songs in one day. That's how he operated. He was real quick with his pen.

I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk.