Quotes By Bob Seger

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys.

I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.

I'd rather make music than tour.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.