I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

People know when you're frontin'.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

I'm a peaceful dude.

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

I'd have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

We smoked a lot of cloves.

I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker.

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

This industry is all about work, and just because Sundance exposed me to the world, it is my job to stay deserving in that world. The work never ends; the hustle just get harder, and you get stronger!

I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

I don't want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.