39 Quotes by Sir Mix-a-Lot

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

Do I do bar mitzvahs? No. You know, you've gotta draw a line somewhere.

That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' I did it to be unpopular.

Bottom line: Black men like curves. When they're crooning to women about how beautiful they are in an R&B song, the ladies you see in the video don't reflect what those guys like.

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

I still love 'Baby Got Back.' I will perform it until I drop.

I tell people all the time, I'm Mix-A-Lot. I'm not a rocket scientist.

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We've always liked curves, and a lot of people misunderstood it because let's face it: 20 years prior to 'Baby Got Back,' the only images you saw of a black woman on television were she was probably 300 pounds and cleaning the house with a rag on her head.