Kid rock quotes

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

I've always had a love of country music.

There's no way anyone in the world is having more fun than I am. I truly believe that.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

I always say getting married was a ball. I had a blast getting married. Loved it so much I got married six or seven times or whatever it was.

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

I remember coming home from school one time and saying very calmly to my mum, 'I'm not going any more. It's a waste of time. I gotta get going with this music thing. School's getting in the way.' It freaked her out.

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!

People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

My son is a great kid and does super well in school. I couldn't be prouder of him. What I tell him is, 'You don't want to just be known for being the son of a rich rock 'n' roll star.' I've seen a lot of kids like that. I want him to be happy, work hard and create his own thing. I tell him, 'You're not gonna be one of these kids up on stage playing with me. If you wanna have hits - write your own. Then we can play together.'

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Getting married is the most fun you can have in life. Being married sucks

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

I have a couple of guys to do my laundry. Just because I'm lazy and rich.

I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

My good friends call me Bobby.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock 'n' roll life. It's gone way beyond that.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

Girls are always like, 'Oh, you're much better-looking in person than in pictures.' I'm kinda like, 'Er, thank you? I think? As in, I'm not as ugly as you thought?'

Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

The best formula for revenge is success.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.

You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.

Many of my lyrics are about having sex with prostitutes.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

I just don't like being told what to do.

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.

As much as you don't want to say you are a vengeful person, when someone drags your name through the mud and plays press games and puts things out there like that, you are kind of like, alright. US Weekly will be gone next week, the songs I am writing won't.

Beyonce, to me, doesn't have a f--king 'Purple Rain', but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one 'Sweet Home Alabama' or 'Old Time Rock & Roll'? People are like, 'Beyonce's hot. Got a nice f--king ass.' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big t--s.' Doesn't really f--king do much for me.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

All girls want to be sexy.

I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

I really believe it's the old cliché, the more you give the more you receive. I'm living proof of that.

Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.

I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!)

I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.

Live for the moments you can't put into words

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously...

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber … is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.