I've been rapping since 1979.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I perform for soldiers because they are important,'

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

I've been rapping since 1979.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

We take pride in what we do.

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Gangsta rap is a derogatory label.

I am transforming.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

Noble fathers have noble children.

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

Customers have access to information that gives them much more control over their lives.

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'

When you come to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.