Xzibit

It's impossible to have a personal life when you're constantly travelling.

I work with the best.

Dada has always been competitive and respected and I'm excited to design and promote a shoe that represents both of us so well.

We all get our breaks and our taste of entertainment in different ways.

If you know hip-hop, you're going to love and appreciate 'Napalm.'

I miss the willingness to go your own path and be original.

As a creative, you want to see things elevate, not digress.

These people dissing Dr. Dre, they need to get off their cell phones for about a week and come back to reality. They have no idea. Do what he did and then talk to me.

I'm old fashioned. I like the CD.

I have a very good support team and system behind me, and I have people who really understand the vision I have for stepping into the future.

I got the U2 iPod.

Fame doesn't come overnight.

Every day I get up is a high point.

I'm in a unique position in that my career in music is not over and I have other television things and ventures I can get into. So, it's like I can be very selective when it comes to movie roles.

The car culture is part of living in Detroit.

Look at the Prius. It's a nerd car. Yeah, you're being environmentally friendly, but your dating life is gonna suck.

You only grow old when you stop playing.

I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.

I wish other people could be happy in what they do. The world would be a better place.

My music is the foundation of everything that I do, and my fans make it possible for me to keep recording.

Black people don't really see ghosts or aliens.

Restless' was cool. I wish I had more time to put it together.

How can you not like the Lakers?

Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.

Timbaland was crazy to work with. When he stepped in the studio, it was like working with Morpheus from 'The Matrix' - he stepped in with three beats and said, 'Pick one.' They all sounded crazy, but I could only pick one. I picked one and he hooked me up.

I definitely have the love for music.

People need to have the courage to be themselves.

Whenever you have the opportunity to reach out in your community and educate kids and help give them a sense of belonging, you're doing something good.

I'm just trying to put my feet into different characters and not play the stereotypical type thing, to let me grow as an actor.

It seems like once you get on any kind of mass media's bad side, you are like free-range chicken. It's like open season on you.

I'm energetic.

I just do my thing regardless of whoever I'm with: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop, whoever.

It never gets old seeing somebody do something positive for somebody else.

I like big engines and cars with power.

I don't have to, like, try to come out with pop music because I feel that that's gonna make me sell a lot more. I mean, I make the music I love to make and that's it.

I don't even know what 'keep it real' means. I mean, where you live doesn't make you real, you know what I'm saying? I take care of my family, my friends and I live in a nice house and whatnot but you never forget where you came from.

There's so many other things that I can do with my time besides just worry about what the next man is doing, ya feel me?

Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.

Don't ally yourself with people who don't help you succeed.

My fans deserve all the attention I can give them, but my son deserves his father.

When you chop down a tree you can look at the rings and see what the tree's been through. That's what you can do when you listen to my records.

If you go into the wild, you don't try to tickle the grizzly bears.

It's one thing to be bitter about something, but it's another thing to recognise the growth and the change that you made.

There was a time when I was making a lot of money and moving very fast. I didn't like who I was. I could tell by the company I was keeping.

What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's not for that, but there was at least something that got through that had some content that was sensible and positive, not just hooky junk-food rap.

I do things that I feel in my heart. I do things that I feel are right.

I would never be a buffoon or an imbecile or a coon. I'm a strong brother that understands what I mean to this society, where I fit in this society, and how I can change this society.

Well, my father was a marine so you know how that is.

I'm not feeding my kid off movie roles so it's easy for me to say 'no' to things but it's important for me to have this presence and I know it's easy to stereotype and pigeonhole certain people that come from a certain genre but I can do more than a lot of people expect.

I did 'XXX: State of the Union' with Ice Cube because he and Samuel L. Jackson are some of favorite inspirations in life.