Kid Rock Quotes

“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.”

— Kid Rock

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.

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

“Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.”

— Kid Rock

I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

“I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.”

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

“I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.”

— Kid Rock

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

— Kid Rock

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.

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

I like who I am.

— Kid Rock

“Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber ... is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.”

— Kid Rock

“I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.”

— Kid Rock

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.”

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'”

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.”

— Kid Rock

I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!”

— Kid Rock

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.”

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

— Kid Rock

“There's nothing better than seeing people you know being able to work and support their families. Knowing you have a little hand in it? Now, that really makes you feel good.”

— Kid Rock

“When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.”

— Kid Rock

Beyonce, to me, doesn't have a f
king Purple Rain, but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one Sweet Home Alabama or Old Time Rock & Roll? ... People are like, 'Beyonce's hot. Got a nice f
king a
.' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big t
s.' Doesn't really f
king do much for me.

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

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.

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“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.”

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock

“The best formula for revenge is success.”

— Kid Rock

“I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.”

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

“I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.”

— Kid Rock

“Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.”

— Kid Rock

I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

“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.”

— Kid Rock