Kid Rock Quotes

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

People know me through my characters. I don't think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director's son, and I am married to an actress.

I've always been and will always be very private about my personal life. If anything ever goes public, it is by default, because I happened to be in a place where I was being watched. But for the most part, I honestly don't care what people think. I never have. If I did, I'd probably present myself a little more carefully.

I don't think I'm prepared for life in the spotlight. I don't even think I'm really prepared now, but I still don't really feel like I'm in the spotlight a lot. I'm not a household name. I'm not followed around by paparazzi. I still have a very normal life. I'd love as many people to know and like my music as possible, but there's something quite lovely about being able to still go and watch your boys play football.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.