I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

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.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

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.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

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.

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.

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

Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber... is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

My good friends call me Bobby.

I've always had a love of country music.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

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

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

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.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.