Quotes of the day, December 22

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Ice T

• Mother
• Father
• Black

It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• Pretty
• Better
• Arts

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Ice Cube

• Good
• Day
• Tired

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

Laura Marling

• Think
• Healthy
• Debate

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Viggo Mortensen

• History
• Violence
• Laugh

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

Natalie Maines

• Up
• Long
• Hair