It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.
— Glenn Danzig
CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.
I hate iPods.
My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.
Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.
I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.
Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.
I'm a big Fred Armisen fan.
You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.
I was watching TV once, and 'Jailhouse Rock' comes on, and I'm like, 'What is this?' I started watching it, and at the end, I thought, 'This is what I want to do. That's what I want to be. That's for me. That's it!'
When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life - I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma's, and she would take me to the beach.
My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.
I'm lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.
I don't even listen to music on the road, and if I did, it would be classical or whatever, something to chill me out.
If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.
The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.
I love giving the energy and getting the energy back. There is nothing like it.
So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.
I don't think anyone in my family was funny.
I had a situation where Bill Clinton sent the F.B.I. after me.
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That's a pretty big deal.
I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.
I don't really go to the beach.
My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.
I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.
I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.
We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.
I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.
I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.
When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.
Two hours onstage... that's the best part because it makes it all worth it.
I like the original Metallica version they did on 'Garage Days' - 'Last Caress' and 'Green Hell.'
I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.
I like Bill Murray a real lot. I like Andy Kaufman.
Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.
I hadn't done a photo cover in a while, and I decided to do a take on the 'Pin Ups' cover, but do it in skull face and have the girl in skull face. People seem to dig it.
Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.
If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.
Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.
Wars have always started over religion.
People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.
It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.
I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.
