“Show me a smile, and I’ll show you one back.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I don’t have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I’m a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don’t do egotistical things.”
― Vanilla Ice
“One thing I didn’t understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn’t buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn’t know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.”
― Vanilla Ice
“It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It’s not designed for any age group. It’s not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that’s because you need it.”
― Vanilla Ice
“When ‘Ice Ice Baby’ was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and – to my surprise – I made a huge profit!”
― Vanilla Ice
“Learn from my mistakes and you don’t have to make them yourself.”
― Vanilla Ice
“Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I’m a Christian, but I don’t believe in religion or anything like that.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I’m going to play, man. Let’s jam. I don’t care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.”
― Vanilla Ice
“Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I’ve already got it. A bigger house ain’t gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it’s not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?”
― Vanilla Ice
“I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can’t quit. I’m addicted. I’ve broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It’s my thing – there’s no high on earth like it. It’s my hobby and I really enjoy it.”
― Vanilla Ice
“Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That’s not what real life is about.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― 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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I didn’t end up going bankrupt… I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it’s not about finances. No matter what, it’s about keeping it real.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I don’t harp on what I could change about the past, because I can’t go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there’s really no lyrics to it, so you’re not following something that – that you’re listening to a story.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I turned a lot of people in white America – and not just white America, but middle-class America – into hip-hoppers, you know?”
― Vanilla Ice
“My main thing is music; it’s what I do.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is about that area.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don’t think I would be as happy today if I hadn’t been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“Rap is from the streets and I’m from the streets. That’s why a lot of people accept me.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don’t have a dad.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I’ve never met anybody in this world like me.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down – it’s got to be an adventure.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I’ve never left music behind, but I’ve had success in television.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I’m the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It’s more rewarding.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.”
― Vanilla Ice
“If you grew up in my generation, you’re going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica – it wasn’t segregated anymore.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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!”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
“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.”
― Vanilla Ice
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