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.
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
Elaine Miller: Rock stars have kidnapped my son!
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
Loe tinggal sendirian di dunia yang kejam ini? Keren! That’s punk, dude!
I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression.
Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.
...if anybody was going to blow up the Superland™ Wal-Mart, it was going to be me. Not some fucking crusty punk.
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel.
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
