Kid Rock
Kid Rock
Robert James Ritchie, known professionally as Kid Rock, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. His 1998 album Devil Without a Cause sold 13 million copies worldwide. He is a five-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold 25 million albums in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan. The RIAA certified him selling 23.5 million albums. He has sold over 35 millions records worldwide and he was Soundscan's number-one selling male solo musician of the 2000s, selling...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth17 January 1971
CityRomeo, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
I've always had a love of country music.
Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.
I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.
I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.
I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.
I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.
If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.
I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.
If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.