Vanilla Ice Quotes

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

Anything less than the best is a felony.

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

Stop, collaborate and listen.

A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

No way! Let me tell you, I'm no Elvis. Elvis had his time. I'm Vanilla Ice, and it's my turn now.

Be yourself and enjoy yourself. Show me a smile and I'll show you one back. Karma: Believe in it. It's real. It comes back to you.

I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

We are who we are because of who we were

I don't know all the certain words to word it.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy too.

Drop that zero and get with the hero!

It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. Ice Ice Baby is about that area.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.

I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are. It works for me. Stay positive and good things happen.

I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.