Quotes from Ice Cube

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

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.

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

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

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.

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.

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.

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

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.