I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.
— 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.
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 care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.
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.
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!
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.
I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
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.
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.
I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.
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 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 know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.
I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.
But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.
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.
A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
