“What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.”

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it’s time.

Don’t get upset girl, that’s how it goes. I don’t love you hoes, I’m out the door.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

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.

A lot of people like to fool you and say that you’re not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That’s what I learned from selling crack.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it.

When you’re dead, you don’t breathe, you don’t see, you don’t feel, you don’t love.

They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that’s used for purposes of cataracts?

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

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

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.

You got to be who you are when you are.

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.

Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!

The more information you have, the better you will be.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it’s Indian or it’s Western.

She’s like turning on the radio and hearing a brand new song.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

It’s important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.

I really wanted to take ‘Dilbar’ to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It’s not gonna work. Everything that’s good is really instant.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who wasn’t satisfied with just one level of musicianship as someone who was a pioneer.