Quotes from Too Short

I think Jive was just a shady label that they didn't want artists in the same room like, 'Hey, what you making?' Like I never worked with R. Kelly, I never worked with Q-Tip. I never worked with anybody that was on Jive. I never did a song with KRS-One.

I don't want to be on any major labels.

In '88, '89, '90, '91... When I was making these albums, it would be four or five songs that didn't have any curse words, that were about social issues in the community.

If you had no Eazy-E, you got no N.W.A., no Dr. Dre, no Ice Cube, no Tupac Death Row years... no Bone Thugs. No Aftermath, no 50 Cent, no Eminem - the way we know them. The branch that is called Eazy-E on the Hip Hop tree is massive.

That song, 'Couldn't Be A Better Player,' was a major turning point in my life.

Twenty-two's my lucky number.

Don't get to the point where you think, 'I learned everything last week,' or, 'I learned everything last year.' You'll never learn everything. Wake up every day and try to learn something new. And if you do learn something, pass it on to people you think deserve the game.

Although I have made my career on dirty raps, I have worked over the years to somewhat balance the content of my music with giving back to the community.

The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and the stuff I listened to at every age. All of that inspired the music that I made.

It's not a passion of mine to follow politics. When I deal with political issues in my songs, I just say stuff that's current, only as a songwriter.

I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.

By the time I'm 25, I want to be financially stable.

New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.

I grew up in L.A., I moved to Oakland when I was 14.

Oakland has always been my muse.

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

I'm a businessman. Making records is my business. I have a big operation and I employ a lot of people.

All I can tell you is, all of the good product you got from E-40 with all the good product you got from Too $hort - it's almost impossible for us to make a terrible album together. We're both opinionated, so I damn sure am not co-signing a song that I think is wack.

I've been taking it in stride, man. I'm not the kind of person who goes around bragging to everybody, 'I did a song with Lady Gaga!'

I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But I'll tell them I just can't do it. And when they ask why, I say, 'Because then somebody's gonna hear it... damn, find another track.'

I have four favorite places for womanizing: L.A., Miami, New York, and Vegas.

I love Vegas. I come to Vegas all the time... Check into a hotel for a day or two and enjoy the city.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

You have to be accountable for what you do.