94 Quotes by Chris Isaak

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.