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I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

— Kid Rock

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.

— Big Smo

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

— Robin Trower

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

— Micky Dolenz

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

— Harland Williams

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

— Amy Grant

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

— Julio Iglesias

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

— Jools Holland

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

— Gary Lucas

My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

— Randy Houser

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

— Faith Hill