Top 65 Quotes & Sayings by John Corabi

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it's not happening.

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.

Motley is a great band; they're a legendary band. They're probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

I want to show people that I'm not just that guy who can get out there and scream 'Hooligan's Holiday' and 'Smoke The Sky.'

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

Every band has an 'off' night once in a while - that's gonna happen.

You've got to adapt - or get out.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

The thing I wasn't prepared for was when I wasn't in Motley Crue anymore. 'Cause as much as my phone was ringing, it stopped ringing.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.

There's just some things you can't change.

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

When I started doing the acoustic shows, people would be yelling for 'Hooligan's Holiday' and 'Smoke The Sky,' and I had no idea of how to pull them off.

Looking at it half-full, there was only two singers in Motley, me and Vince, and I'm still here, 25 years later. And whether I like it or not, I'm the other singer for Motley Crue, and not to sound weird, but I've gotten a lot of extra mileage, I think, out of my career because of it, so I have nothing but positive things to say.

Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn't exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!

Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.

When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

Even Nikki with Sixx:A.M., I wish you the best of luck.

I don't know what he wants to do musically, but at the end of the day, I love Mick Mars - he's one of the sweetest human beings you'll ever meet in your life - and anything I can do to help him with his solo record, I would be more than happy to do.

You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I'm not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that's just my thought process.

Touring is very tough.

If you don't like what you're doing, get out.

Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.

Everybody that I've ever played with is awesome, and I've learned from all of them, so it's all good.

People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.

Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.' It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

It's weird, for me as a fan, to have a fan tell me that I'm their favorite singer. It's still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don't know how to respond to it. It's a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.

It doesn't bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I've ever been in or done and says, 'Hey, man, I really like your music. I've never heard of you.' That doesn't bother me at all.

That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason.

I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?

My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.

I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I have. I've also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, 'This is the one.' I think that's just human nature.

I think we had kind of a die-hard fan base when it came out, but a lot of the people were angry with Motley for getting rid of Vince, or Vince leaving or whatever happened.

I had a great run with Ratt.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

I don't like doing what people would expect of me.

I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it's to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.

To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don't realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

My son is my drummer.

When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'