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 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.

When the tragedy begins and the boat begins to sink I will do anything in my power to help save my mates if they reuse my help I have no choice but to jump ship to help myself

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.