Top 35 Huey Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m happy to be stuck with you.”

— Huey Lewis

2. “I want a new drug, one that won’t make me sick. One that won’t make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.”

— Huey Lewis

3. “The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that’s the power of love.”

— Huey Lewis

4. “Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob’s ladder.”

— Huey Lewis

5. “You’ve been thinking and I’ve been drinking.”

— Huey Lewis

6. “Don’t miss understand me, I’m not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.”

— Huey Lewis

7. “Take it from me, its hip to be square.”

— Huey Lewis

8. “I love you Huey was the note I read, but there’s a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.”

— Huey Lewis

9. “In the ’80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn’t have a hit record you weren’t going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.”

— Huey Lewis

10. “She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.”

— Huey Lewis

11. “I’m a tired runner in the human race.”

— Huey Lewis

12. “Sometimes bad is bad.”

— Huey Lewis

13. “I don’t have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.”

— Huey Lewis

14. “Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.”

— Huey Lewis

15. “I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.”

— Huey Lewis

16. “I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and ’60s it was a natural paradise.”

— Huey Lewis

17. “You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let’s enjoy it!”

— Huey Lewis

18. “When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it’s the best feeling in the world.”

— Huey Lewis

19. “Hot lovin’ every night.”

— Huey Lewis

20. “New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.”

— Huey Lewis

21. “After ‘Sports’ came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album’s singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.”

— Huey Lewis

22. “I am a Bay Area guy, no question.”

— Huey Lewis

23. “Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and ‘Sports’ theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.”

— Huey Lewis

24. “I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.”

— Huey Lewis

25. “My first kiss can be summed up in one word – unsuccessful.”

— Huey Lewis

26. “I don’t tap dance, and I don’t think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.”

— Huey Lewis

27. “In ’87 – four years after ‘Sports’ was released – my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.”

— Huey Lewis

28. “I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.”

— Huey Lewis

29. “It’s true, I do like cheering people up.”

— Huey Lewis

30. “The choices I make – they have to be creative.”

— Huey Lewis

31. “Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star.”

— Huey Lewis

32. “I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.”

— Huey Lewis

33. “Today, it’s very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.”

— Huey Lewis

34. “Film is a lark to me – thank God I don’t have to make a living from it.”

— Huey Lewis

35. “I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?”

— Huey Lewis

36. “I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.”

— Huey Lewis