94 Quotes by Chris Isaak

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don’t even have a push-button radio. It’s just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you’re driving, that’s all I want.

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.

I picked songs that I’ve been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.

I put on music and I’m washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you’re trying to make love. You put that on in the background and you go, maybe this will be romantic.

The ’50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.

I don’t think I’ve had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I’ve had a pretty lucky life.

I think I’m in a really nice position, where I’m sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he’ll always – about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is.