Kid Rock Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice.

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.

The best formula for revenge is success.

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

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

My past is a bit checkered.

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

Many of my lyrics are about having sex with prostitutes.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!'

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

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

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?'

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me.

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.

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

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

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.

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

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.