155 Quotes by Bob Seger

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

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.

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

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.

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

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

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

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

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