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 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.

Redemption in Christ Jesus is the grace rebirth.

The Word of God is my life's manual.

Love for you dances within & around my core of being as regular as the beat of my heart. As certain as the draw and release of each breath.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

The rich are different from us.

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.