Quotes from Xzibit

Whenever you have the opportunity to reach out in your community and educate kids and help give them a sense of belonging, you're doing something good.

Restless' was something totally different, and I couldn't use the same material. 'Man Vs. Machine' is scientific. It's broken down in a whole different way.

We all get our breaks and our taste of entertainment in different ways.

I just do my thing regardless of whoever I'm with: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop, whoever.

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

I miss the willingness to go your own path and be original.

Black people don't really see ghosts or aliens.

Restless' was cool. I wish I had more time to put it together.

I'm doing things that feel good to my soul. I've had plenty opportunity to do other things, but it didn't feel right, and it wasn't right. And if it feels like work, then it's work. But if you have that opportunity to do what you love, and you can make a living out of it, then that's a blessing and I never take that for granted.

If you go into the wild, you don't try to tickle the grizzly bears.

It's one thing to be bitter about something, but it's another thing to recognise the growth and the change that you made.

Dr Dre has never told me a lie. I look up to him, not only as a business man, but just as someone who has become his own man in this business. He's always recognised the hard-working ethic that I have and given me opportunities based on that.

My music is the foundation of everything that I do, and my fans make it possible for me to keep recording.

Money is part of the game, but let's take this music as musicians to the next level, don't be recycling beats over and over and over again.

Every day I get up is a high point.

When you glorify yourself to the point where you can't relate to a regular person, then you distort your expectations and your values.

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

For me, hip-hop's not about the bling.

Dre was extremely involved in 'Restless,' but I told him that the next record had to be called 'Man Vs. Machine' because I have specific topics and ways to work my writing for that topic.

Dada has always been competitive and respected and I'm excited to design and promote a shoe that represents both of us so well.

I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.

Music is the best way I can express myself, meaning that why I write and how I came to love music comes out through Xzibit. Who I am, who Alvin Joiner is, comes out when I pick up that pen and write.

Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.

What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's not for that, but there was at least something that got through that had some content that was sensible and positive, not just hooky junk-food rap.