A biography for Kid Rockhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.”
“I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.”
“I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.”
“It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.”
“Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.”
“The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.”
“The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.”
“You know, when I started I liked Big Macs and Budweiser and I still like Big Macs and Budweiser.”
“They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.”
“I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.”
“I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.”
“I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.”
“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.”
“Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.”
“I just have never got into reading.”
“I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.”
“I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.”
“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!”