Quotes By Chris Isaak

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

I keep things pretty simple.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

I put music on and I drive around town.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.