Quotes from Eddie Rabbitt

I'm an Irish guy who loves his music.

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

I never went to parties for the same reason I never went to clubs, because I had worked so many clubs with a band up in Jersey that I just wasn't interested in hanging out in places.

I do face exercises, yoga things.

Working the road will kill you. Eating cheeseburgers, sleeping odd hours. If you don't do something, it breaks you down. People think that it is glamorous; it is not glamorous.

Writing has always been so much fun for me, and it still is. I think if you can keep it fun, then you have something. You start to lose it if it becomes work. That's one of the reasons that we're in this business - to get out of work.

I make sure the best of what I do each year is the only material that gets on my albums; I don't want people to think I put out junk.

I was always going out to joints in Jersey that played country music. I was always around it. I liked the lyrics, the simple melodies, the soulful-ness.

I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

I'm not saying there's not talent in heavy metal and rap, but a lot of people are finding it's just the same thing, over and over.

People don't know major and minor chords; they know what they like. I feel the same way.

You know, one year with 'Glenn Campbell and his Good Time Hour' and people know you too well. To me, when someone is on the tube every day then they become ordinary.

I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

I've always liked 'Mist In The Meadow.'

Friends didn't believe me when I told them about him, so I'd invite them over on Saturdays to watch the monkey watch TV.

I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

I can't see a Twisted Sister on the country charts.

A lot of people kind of perceive me as some kind of pop act because in the early '80s 'I Love A Rainy Night' went No. 1 for two weeks in a row and 'Driving My Life Away' sold a million records.

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

You can bring your children and your Grandma to my show. Grandma might have to cover her ears, but it won't be because she'll be hearing anything nasty... just because it'll be loud.

I've been doing country music for a while, and people ask me, 'What's a kid from New Jersey doing singing country music?' I just fell in love with it when I was a kid.

I was engaged once In New Jersey. But the engagement ended, because I had music on my mind. I had nothing to offer her except a dream.

We were one of the hottest bands in Jersey, but I was burning up because I knew I'd never be a star in Newark. I knew the action was in Nashville and that's where I wanted to be.