LL Cool J

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.