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!

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.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.