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
When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.
When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock 'n' roll life. It's gone way beyond that.
All girls want to be sexy.
Girls are always like, 'Oh, you're much better-looking in person than in pictures.' I'm kinda like, 'Er, thank you? I think? As in, I'm not as ugly as you thought?'
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!
The Super Bowl is helping out. It's nice that people are bringing some money into Detroit.
Well, in America people know us. We've got it made there, but in Europe people don't know us. We've got to win them over and that's a challenge.
You know, America loves the underdog and I'm no longer the underdog, so if people are going to start taking shots at me, I'm ready for that.
No, but we put a rider in our contract that there has to be Pabst Blue Ribbon in our dressing rooms, just because we thought it would be funny.
I can't disagree with that. I've been pretty reflective lately of how blessed I am, how fortunate I am to be still doing it.
What perfect timing. I got a record coming up ... Maybe I should thank him.
My goal is to get quieter as I get older.
I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.
The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.