My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck. Chris Isaak More Quotes by Chris Isaak More Quotes From Chris Isaak I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good. Chris Isaak pianowantplay 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. Chris Isaak carhatetwo I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits. Chris Isaak bananassplitsblow I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws. Chris Isaak flawswritingsong My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. Chris Isaak stringsrecordsguitar I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs. Chris Isaak partystarschildren I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this. Chris Isaak talentcallingdesire I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform. Chris Isaak hambothernatural I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business. Chris Isaak methodicalcareersthinking I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks. Chris Isaak guitarpartyhouse 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. Chris Isaak hellexpectationspeople I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair. Chris Isaak homehairpast 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. Chris Isaak carmaking-lovelove-you 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. Chris Isaak recordsdifferentnine 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. Chris Isaak townsmilitaryeurope 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. Chris Isaak playsongthinking I don't know what people think in making record is like. But basically, I got a bunch of spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, and the whole band was staying at my house and we had a ball. Chris Isaak housepeoplethinking I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis. Chris Isaak generationswantedthinking When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them. Chris Isaak embarrassedstupidpeople 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. Chris Isaak growing-upmomsong
