If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

I have my dad's shape. No booty.

When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

I think the sound of 'The Infamous' came naturally from our lifestyle and some of the criminal things we were doing. We always rap about what we're living, and to put a beat to lyrics like those is hard.

That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about: we felt that we were living in hell.

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and fathers. You wouldn't expect them to be behind bars.

Anything that Havoc or I do is always going to point back to Mobb Deep.

You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'

To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.

Nas is like King Queensbridge: he's the man out there.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

My family had a lot to do with 'My Infamous Life.' They were the inspiration behind me starting to write. I had an interesting family life dating way back, and they did a lot in their lifetime.

I don't want fans anymore, because the definition of a fan is a fanatic. The people who buy my product and ride with me are my supporters, not fanatics.

'Cobra Clutch' was to let the world know we ain't going nowhere. We got the game in the cobra clutch.

You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.

I'm always vocal about people being unique and different in hip-hop.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

In my lyrics, I used to always state two years ahead. I did that to make it seem like we were ahead of our time - a time capsule almost. It had never been done before.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.