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 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.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

The right man won't care

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.