Top 126 Quotes & Sayings by Glenn Danzig

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

I just told you I wasn't a Satanist.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.

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.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

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?'

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.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

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.

Wars have always started over religion.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

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 the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

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!'

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

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.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

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 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.

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.

I hate iPods.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

I love giving the energy and getting the energy back. There is nothing like it.

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.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

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.

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.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

I don't really go to the beach.

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.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!

David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

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 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.

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.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

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.'

I'm a big Fred Armisen fan.

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.

Diet is really important, and I think vitamins are really important, also.

I had a situation where Bill Clinton sent the F.B.I. after me.

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.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

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.