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

"I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all."

"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."

"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."

"Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that."

"Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public."

"I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen."

"I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket."

"I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that."

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

"The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?"

"A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss,"

"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

"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."

"You like a woman, "she"'s got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided."

"I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past."

"My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'"

"When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."

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

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

"South Central is just who I am. 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."

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

"Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit."

"Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things."

"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."

"For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them."

"I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done."

"South Central is just who I am."

"I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."

"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."

"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."

"I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced."

"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."

"A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night."

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever."

"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight"

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."

"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry"

"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."

"The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that."

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

"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."

"You don't "wanna "mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy."

"The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love."

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

"Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you."