Quotes from Coolio

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.