172 Quotes by Ice T

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shotHoes I ain't caughtOr shit I ain't bought.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

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.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.