Top 120 Kid Rock Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Live for the moments you can’t put into words.”

— Kid Rock

2. “I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.”

— Kid Rock

3. “You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.”

— Kid Rock

4. “Go where you’re celebrated, not tolerated. I’m celebrated in Detroit.”

— Kid Rock

5. “I just don’t like being told what to do.”

— Kid Rock

6. “I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.”

— Kid Rock

7. “The best formula for revenge is success.”

— Kid Rock

8. “I don’t steal things. I’m rich.”

— Kid Rock

9. “Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.”

— Kid Rock

10. “I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they’re so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That’s why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can’t figure that out.”

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

12. “Getting married is the most fun you can have in life. Being married sucks.”

— Kid Rock

13. “I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.”

— Kid Rock

14. “One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don’t mind being ugly, but I sure don’t want to look like that.”

— Kid Rock

15. “I think what I’ve learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.”

— Kid Rock

16. “I always say getting married was a ball. I had a blast getting married. Loved it so much I got married six or seven times or whatever it was.”

— Kid Rock

17. “I just wasn’t raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I’m from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.”

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

19. “I don’t make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.”

— Kid Rock

20. “I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends.”

— Kid Rock

21. “I play Rock ‘n’ Roll, that’s what I do.”

— Kid Rock

22. “I’m a bit of an insomniac. I’m always thinking. I’ve got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.”

— Kid Rock

23. “I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.”

— Kid Rock

24. “Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.”

— Kid Rock

25. “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.”

— Kid Rock

26. “As much as you don’t want to say you are a vengeful person, when someone drags your name through the mud and plays press games and puts things out there like that, you are kind of like, alright. US Weekly will be gone next week, the songs I am writing won’t.”

— Kid Rock

27. “I don’t want to be tied down. I don’t want to settle down. I don’t want I love you.”

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28. “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.”

— Kid Rock

29. “I could care less about what people think. I’m a Devil Without A Cause.”

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30. “I care less if I can’t be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.”

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31. “I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, ‘Baby, you don’t seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.’”

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32. “I don’t sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.”

— Kid Rock

33. “I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.”

— Kid Rock

34. “I’m all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that’s just how it goes.”

— Kid Rock

35. “I’m not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.”

— Kid Rock

36. “I’m not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.”

— Kid Rock

37. “I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.”

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38. “I’m in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they’re great musicians and people. But I’m most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.”

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39. “Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie’s up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.”

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40. “Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can’t find love.”

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41. “I remember coming home from school one time and saying very calmly to my mum, ‘I’m not going any more. It’s a waste of time. I gotta get going with this music thing. School’s getting in the way.’ It freaked her out.”

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42. “Girls are always like, ‘Oh, you’re much better-looking in person than in pictures.’ I’m kinda like, ‘Er, thank you? I think? As in, I’m not as ugly as you thought?’”

— Kid Rock

43. “I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are – that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or – or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.”

— Kid Rock

44. “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!”

— Kid Rock

45. “I’m single and loving it. It is always weird talking about that stuff. When someone is talking about who they are going out with, I am always like, who cares? Talk about your music or something.”

— Kid Rock

46. “I don’t rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.”

— Kid Rock

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

— Kid Rock

48. “When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock ‘n’ roll life. It’s gone way beyond that.”

— Kid Rock

49. “These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.”

— Kid Rock

50. “My good friends call me Bobby.”

— Kid Rock