Quotes By Ice Cube

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 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.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

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.

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

I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

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

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

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

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.

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.

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.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

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

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

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.

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.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

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

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

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 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.

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

When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.