Quotes from Ice Cube

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

Today I didn't even have to even use my A.K ! I got to say it was a good day

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.