Coolio Quotations

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

Elesa slept with Mark and Mark slept with Tina. Tina slept with Javier, the first time he seen her. Javier slept with Loopy, and Loopy slept with Rob. Rob slept with Lisa who slept with Steve...

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

If you've got beef, then eat a porkchop

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

Put a condom in their hand and hope it don't bust.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.