Quotes By Kid Rock

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

My past is a bit checkered.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I just have never got into reading.

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.

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

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

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 know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

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.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.