I'm glad I'm setting an example for the younger generation so in the future they can say, 'Look how long E-40's rap career was. Look how long he stayed relevant.'

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

When I had my house in '96, I had a Warriors basketball court built.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

I just respect people and mind my business. I don't got time to worry about what the next man's pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.

I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

It's always a dream come true to do music with your pops. And your son.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

Ebonics is me. I'm the king of slang, hands down.

Before me, there was no offbeat flow.

I just love sports.

However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.

In the early '90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we'd pow wow - a good dude, you know?

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are going to pick up on.

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

I would like to work with Dr. Dre.

I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.

I had a song back in 1992 talking about 'It's all good.' Then my partner Theo who used to work for 92.3 The Beat in L.A. started saying 'You know it's all good' on the radio and everybody took it back to their soils like that was the new Cali word. But that's a regular word form the Bay Area.

Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good.

I always stay humble. I don't act funny towards nobody.

I'm always giving life lessons in my music.

I started playing drums in the 4th grade.

I got a solid fan base and they love me and I love them. They know I'ma give them what they want to hear.

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

You feel me' - that's straight from me. You can put a stamp on that.

I feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether they know it or not.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

I feel like I'm a voice of hope.

When you do mixtapes, a lot of times your fanbase can say, 'We've been getting this for free for so many years, his new album is about to drop, we've listened to it, and we're not going to buy it. We'll download it for free.'

For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

Sometimes all your fanbase wants you to do is stay within your envelope and do you because that's what they love you for.

When I do listen to music a lot of times I listen to old school music, I'm talking about Earth, Wind & Fire, I'm talking about the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays. It just eases my mind.

I don't listen to rap all the time. Even though I rap, rap can be nerve-wracking.

I'm just a storyteller.

I paint pictures with my raps.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

Long as the Earth is here, hip-hop'll be here.

You know, I don't turn down autographs. I try to sign as many autographs as I can.

Communication, that keeps everything cool. Not holding anything back, you got to tell each other what's on your mind, that's really it. Otherwise when one gets mad at one, it can burst and you just let it out and it can just come out wrong.

The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.

I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.

I will rap circles around anybody.