Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek
Richard T. Otcasek, known as Ric Ocasek, is an American songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band the Cars. Ocasek has been married to model Paulina Porizkova since 1989...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 March 1949
CityBaltimore, MD
check everybody game produce sound work
When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.
audience certainly gymnastics talk
I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
fairly people time
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
love
The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.
bob oddly people velvet
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
volunteer needs helpful
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
tired fitting
When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself
song mean eye
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was
time twilight thinking
If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight
love happiness drama
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
past mind answers
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons
enemy efficiency secrecy
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
past mind world
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
magic knows
Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.