Quotes from Ice Cube

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

South Central is just who I am.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.