Quotes from Snoop Dogg

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

You don't get respect if you don't deserve it.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.