When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.
Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.
The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.
I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.
As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.
I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.
I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
When we first started, I didn't know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions... Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?
