Top 35 Vanilla Ice Quotes

Shows have been sold out. It’s overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it’s overwhelming.

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.

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

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.

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

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.

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I’d spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it’s in my nature. I have two little girls, and I’m married, but we’ve got a nanny and a maid.

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ and the college kid who grew up on ‘Ninja Rap’ to the soccer mom and grandparent.

I don’t have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

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 like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It’s very intense stuff.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn’t have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn’t for the white people buying his records.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don’t have a dad.

To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea… someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

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

Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

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

I’m a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don’t do egotistical things.

I bring people on stage with me. It’s a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I’ll show you one back.

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, ‘Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery,’ meaning that you can’t go back and change anything in the past.

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is about that area.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it’s one of my favorite places to renovate.

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

My main thing is music; it’s what I do.

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.

And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

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.

It’s about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don’t matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn’t matter.

I’m the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It’s more rewarding.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it’s just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it’s been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I didn’t want the public in my personal life at all – I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I’d lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You’ve got to protect that!

I’ve been playing concerts for many years, and it’s still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I’m performing.