If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

Love goes unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it.

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

I'm not too interested in books about India.

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

I can't live without my iPhone.

The wrong step becomes the right step once you take it.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.

People often talk about Hispanics. You know, I have more Hispanics come up to me telling me, 'Listen, I can't wait for your father to be president. He's gonna bring jobs back to the United States. He's gonna end the nonsense. He's gonna create good trade deals. He's gonna create better education. He's gonna create a better family structure.'

Ive learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.