139 Quotes by Vanilla Ice

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.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it’s just not going to happen.

Listen, if you don’t talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don’t think big, you don’t get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It’s all in how you want to dissect it.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That’s not what real life is about.

I’ve never left music behind, but I’ve had success in television.

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.

I turned a lot of people in white America – and not just white America, but middle-class America – into hip-hoppers, you know?

For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot – legends – and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down – it’s got to be an adventure.