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

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

Cube: "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."

Cube: "I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration."

Cube: "What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out."

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

[On the role his parents played in his life]

Cube: "They helped build the man you see, you know, showed me that it was all about hard work."

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

Cube: "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."

Cube: “You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.”

Cube: “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.”

Cube: "I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat."

Cube: "Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you."

Cube: “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.”

Cube: "I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients."

Cube: "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."

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

Cube: "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."

Cube: “Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents.”

Cube: "It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new."

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

Cube: "I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer."

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

Cube: "But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time."

Cube: "Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful."

Cube: "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."

Cube: "I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me."

Cube: "I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it."

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