Kid Rock Quotes

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

I am not interested to sing in Bollywood. I sing for only those actors whom I admire. I sing free of cost for them. I want to take independent music ahead, and my songs are completely based on my observations.

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.