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I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.
I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.
The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
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.
I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice.
I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
Oftentimes I’ll just overflow, and then I’ll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody.
Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.
As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.
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.
I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.
The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.
A radical is he who has no sense...fights without reason...I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.
These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.
But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.
If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.
I've never commercialized my music. I've seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.
Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life
If a female wants to do a man's job, no one will stop her from doing it, but women have duties to perform as mothers.
I'm just happy and proud to be playing music every day. Recognition is really cool, but it can also be kind of scary.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
Audiences aren't that different for my show from area to area. Other acts, I think, experiences differences, but not me.
Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.
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.
I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.
I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.
When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist
If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.
I realized that you cannot think European and want to write or create something African. You have to think African in everything.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.
You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.
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.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross