What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.
— Glenn Danzig
Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.
Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.
I know kids like Beavis and Butt-head.
The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.
As a little kid watching horror movies, if you only got to see the monster for the last two minutes of the movie, I thought that movie pretty much sucked.
My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn't see those guys walking around like that.
America was founded on satanism.
I like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefully I am making them forget about all their problems in the world. For however many hours they are at our show, hopefully they are going to have a great time, and it makes life a little more bearable for everybody involved.
Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.
When your car rattles when you drive, you know you are playing cool music.
It really annoys me when the light turns green, and you're behind somebody, and they're just sitting there looking at the light for about 15, 20 seconds.
Diet is really important, and I think vitamins are really important, also.
If you're a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they're here, because you never know what will happen.
It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.
Pop music doesn't challenge anything.
It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.
There's all kinds of schisms in Satanism, but the thing I like about it is the quest for knowledge.
On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there's a whole Elvis channel.
When I started Samhain, I remember a producer telling me that I had a real band now.
No trick or treaters came to my house for Halloween. For some reason, people around here are scared of me.
I don't like a lot of drama on the road - I don't like prima donnas.
I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.
It started getting too crazy with 'Earth A.D.' The concepts started becoming too brutal and violent. It was less about fiction and more about the real world, the past, present, and future. I think a lot of people got freaked out by that.
If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.
I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.
Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.
My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'
I don't know that I'm not normal, because usually, when I tell people the things I do, either their jaw drops or they look at me shocked, but I'm sure I do normal things - everyone eats, that kind of stuff.
I try to work out, but a lot of hotels don't have gyms anymore, so I always try to find a local gym where there's not a ton of 'roid-heads, 'cause I can't stand them. It's tough.
David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.
Back in the days, we had to work with a shoestring budget. We had a movie screen, and we'd show movie trailers on them, and then we'd rip through it and started playing. Now we have a little money to play with to do a cool stage set.
All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.
I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.
I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.
A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.
Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.
Some of the best sing-along stuff you'll ever hear is Gary Glitter.
The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.
Anyone who knows me or my past knows that I never walk away from a fight.
We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary.
I love the energy, and I just love watching people lose their minds and be happy and exhilarated. There is nothing like it.
While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.
I have an old Shelby '68 Mustang that I don't drive.
It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like, 'Okay, today,' and someone else is on the side of you, so you can't pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.
If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.
I'm a workaholic, and so I've always got to be doing stuff.
It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'
For me, it shouldn't just be a live show: it should be an experience. It should be some kind of crazy, tribal, exhausting experience.
The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.
