Quotes By Kid Rock

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

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

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

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

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.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

My past is a bit checkered.

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

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

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

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

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!

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

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.

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.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.