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.
Kid Rock
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.
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 could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
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.'
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.
I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.
Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.
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.
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 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.
Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.
There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't.
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 think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
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've always had a love of country music.
Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
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 always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.
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 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.
I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.
I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.
Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.
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.
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.
I like who I am.
I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.
Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.
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've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.
I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.
Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.
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.
Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.
I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.
I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.
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.
