Eddie Rabbitt

“I know exactly what songwriters are going through.”

“When I was growing up, there were pop stations, rock 'n' roll stations and the rare country station.”

“Not many Rabbitts in this country are related to me.”

“A lot of people kind of perceive me as some kind of pop act because in the early '80s 'I Love A Rainy Night' went No. 1 for two weeks in a row and 'Driving My Life Away' sold a million records.”

“My ultimate idea would be to get a lot of big investors together, buy some land outside Orlando, Florida, and start up Rabbitt Land.”

“I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.”

“I like all good music - rock, pop, country, classical - and when you sit down to write, it all comes out.”

“People don't know major and minor chords; they know what they like. I feel the same way.”

“Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.”

“I'm an Irish guy who loves his music.”

“For a couple of years, it was one gray-day after another.”

“Song of Ireland' struck a chord in Ireland. There are tons of Rabbitts there.”

“All my life I only wanted to write and play music, but it took a long time to make a go of it, and I was one of the lucky ones!”

“I'm not your basic cowboy-cowboy.”

“I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.”

“At a certain time in your career you can't share your time with anyone else. You have to be completely selfish - so that you can write your music.”

“I do face exercises, yoga things.”

“I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.”

“I can't imagine losing my wife or daughter or only being able to see them every so often. If my work made that happen, then music would become a bad thing.”

“The name is Irish-Gaelic. In old Ireland, the Rabbitts were counselors to the chiefs.”