Bob Seger quotes:

I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both said that's our favorite country song of the year. That knocks me out.

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play."

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' on our night moves.

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

I really enjoy being with the people I play with. I enjoy their company. I love the crew, the band - we just move through the country like an army. I always feel very grateful to be up there. There aren't any bad nights anymore unless I'm singing bad, but then the band will carry me. And if they're playing bad, I will carry them..

I don't have and have never had an email address. I'm old school. But as far as downloads go, my only objection is I like the sound of CDs better, so I buy those. I think the sound quality is better.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.

Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on the night, here come the men faces hidden from the light.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys.

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,' which is almost a folk song, and I've always loved folk music. Quiet music, I don't try to do that with - I try to set a mood. But most of the stuff I do enjoy recording is up-tempo, and yes, I try to recreate that.

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.

She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

I'd rather make music than tour.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

I'm older now but still running against the wind

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

She never looks at the ring.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth's soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

Make a destination of the greater truth.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.