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.

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

When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.