Quotes By Kid Rock

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

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

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 good friends call me Bobby.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

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

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

My past is a bit checkered.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

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.

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

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

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.

You know, when I started I liked Big Macs and Budweiser and I still like Big Macs and Budweiser.

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

I just have never got into reading.

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