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 don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.