Eazy-E

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality. ”

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that. ”

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money. ”

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that. ”

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. ”

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me. ”

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me. ”

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too. ”