Ice-T: “The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.”

Ice-T: “The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.”

Ice-T: “I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.”

Ice-T: “Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.”

Ice-T: “It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.”

Ice-T: “I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.”

Ice-T: “A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.”

Ice-T: “People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.”

Ice-T: “The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, 'Hello.'”

Ice-T: “It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.”

Ice-T: “If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.”

Ice-T: “Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.”

Ice-T: “...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.”

Ice-T: “I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.”

Ice-T: “I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.”

Ice-T: “You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.”

Ice-T: “Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.”

Ice-T: “I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.”

Ice-T: “A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.”

Ice-T: “I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.”

Ice-T: “I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.”

Ice-T: “I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.”

Ice-T: “When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.”

Ice-T: “Diet food is for lazy people.”