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Name: Robert Ritchie Band: Kid Rock Position Vocals Date Of Birth January 17, 1971 Place Of Birth Romeo,Michigan Sex Male Official Site: Kid Rock Fan Site: Kid Rock Cassie Fan Site: Die Hard Kid Rock Fan Site: Rock Godess Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"I get Canadian porno that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house."


-"I've been at this for ten years, and whether new or old, I have the most loyal fans in the world because they know I work hard at what I do and actually give a shit about them. I don't need any critic to tell me who or what I am when Lynard Skynard, Run DMC, Aerosmith, and Hank Williams JR told me I'm good."


-"There's a deeper message in all those fucking words I say, and people never get it. If this album sells a million, if all those people actually get it, that'll be the most beautiful thing in this world. Because–you know what I did?–I became part of the problem."


-"Sometimes you can get a little egotistical, wanting things your way even when you're wrong. Even some stupid things. Yeah, I sold 10 million records but I try not to throw it around too much. But at the same time, I've been calling the shots from day one. I'm the one who takes the blows and also takes the credit."


-"I love country music, I love blues music, Sometimes when I’m picking and playing, I think people forget that I started off as a rapper. That’s what I’ll always be in my heart. I have a lot of other talents and I appreciate a lot of different music. “I hope to be able to sing as good as this guy one day and play as good as him, I’m trying. I got the best teacher out there. The influence will always be in my music, but am I going to go country? I think I was born country."


-"I think I'm trying to establish what my hard-core fan base already knows, I think I'm reinforcing the fact that I'm doing a lot more things now. I'm becoming a better songwriter, a better singer. I'm stepping outside the mold that everybody wants to put you in."


-"I don’t really have a problem with many things, to be honest"


-"We're doing it just like the ol' country guys do it, I just want to be working the weekends. My son is with his mother then anyway and I could be with him all week so it works out. I can spend quality time with him. I may lose money but who cares? I make more than enough of it anyway. I want to be at home with him more than anything."


-"Music today is in a big fog, a haze if you will. No one's sure where its going, but I like to think that I've got the best set of fog lights out there."


-"I grew up on that stuff and I'm not ashamed of it because I love it, But I've never been afraid to mix up what I love. In this country kids are defined by one thing that they like. They're into rap or punk. But that's never been me. When I used to DJ in the ghetto I would show up in my skateboarding gear. I'd be wearing my Tony Hawk shirt and people would be like, that dude is crazy. I'm just being me. I'm good at flipping people out."


-"When I got my first $100,000 check I marched over to my dad and threw it in his face, Then when I got my first $1 million dollar check I pulled it out in front of him and said 'check this out. And what's in my other pocket? A check for $4 million.' I was just messing with him. I love my dad."


-"My mom is the best, Why wouldn't I want her to be with me? It is really different for us unfortunately, My mom sums it up best. She was watching him on an awards show and a bunch of pills fell out of his pocket, which I thought was hysterical. But she said, 'it's so sad for him. He has no one to thank.' You can have all the money in the world and all the success but what does it matter if you don't have anyone to share it with."


-"If all this doesn't work, I ain't going to complain, I'll just go back to Detroit, and be like, ‘Cool, I'm still making music.’ And as long as I can do that, I'll do this shit 'til I'm dead. So if this record don’t sell, I’ll just turn to the label and say, ‘Thanks man, you guys tried. I made a good record, and you guys fucking tried to promote it as hard as you could. It's all good.’"


          -Ritchie Robert, Kid Rock, Singer, January 17, 1971