Vanilla Ice Quotes

I like Badshah's songs, as they are very cool, catchy, and very young. I think that's very important... It's connecting with the youth.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

I love pop music... some hip hop... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.

The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

Styles move too fast to be partial to anything. If it's funk, that's enough for me. I don't care how fast or slow it is. I got my grandkids up front rapping and doing the new thing. They're teaching each other, bringing us up to date.

When I was about nine, I went to school with a toothbrush in my mouth. I saw Method Man do it in a video.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

The whole heartbeat of the first record is young, which I think is what made it relatable to young girls.

I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.

It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.

Wu-Tang is a group that has a cult following.

I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.