Quotes from Eddie Rabbitt

We all have to dance with our devils. But I lead.

A song can go a million different ways once you first get it down on tape.

Once in a blue moon, everything will be right with the man in the sky, and when I start singing 'I Love a Rainy Night,' from out of nowhere, there will be lightning and thunder. I just say, 'Folks, we've got the best special effects guy in the world, so let's get wet together.'

I write all different types of music, which can be a blessing and a curse.

Pop's not a dirty word to me.

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

I listened to all kinds of music: rock, pop, R & B. But country was always my first love.

I like all good music - rock, pop, country, classical - and when you sit down to write, it all comes out.

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

I think rap is creating a reverse racism.

I'm having No. 1 hits on the country charts and that's where I always wanted to be. I've had 26 No. 1 country records. That thrills me to no end.

I try to give back some of the good fortune that I've received.

Even though I've had 20-some country No. 1 records, I still have a hard time convincing a lot of these people in the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music that I love country music.

They've always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another - usually country spilling over into the old adult-contemporary charts.

I drive everybody crazy when I go into hiding to record... managers, the label, everybody!

Not many Rabbitts in this country are related to me.

Song of Ireland' struck a chord in Ireland. There are tons of Rabbitts there.

MTV and others need to think about putting positive images In kids' minds.

I'm not one that listens to a whole lot of advice... I go with my gut instincts.

A lot of my friends who started out at the same time as me ended up getting married before they made it. There's nothing wrong with marriage, but at the wrong time it can kill an emerging career.

Jeannle and I lost a son, Tlmmy, in 1985 to a liver transplant operation, if we can do some good, we want to do so.

When a guy like Elvis sings your song, well, you know Elvis didn't cut any junk. People thought, 'This must be a good writer.'

Not everybody that loves country music is 'sitting on a bar stool/feelin' like a durn fool.'

The name is Irish-Gaelic. In old Ireland, the Rabbitts were counselors to the chiefs.