"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere."

"I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know."

"My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme."

"My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them."

"Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else."

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining."

"There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in."

"I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles."

"Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know."

"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."

"Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy."

"Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with."

"I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine."