Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. |
Bat Out of Hell III |
But I never used it as a crutch, never-because you can't do that. Anybody that does that is wrong, because you have to take responsibility for your own actions. You can't blame everybody around you. |
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting. |
I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent to Faith Hill. Because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it. |
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast. |
I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there. |
It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18, |
It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon. |
Not that I have hangovers the next day (after a show), ... but it feels like one after I'm finished. |
Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work. |
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place. |
That emotional thing does not change, |
They expect the best that I can give them on that night, ... It all comes back from playing high school football. There were a couple of signs (in the locker room) and the head coach misspelled a couple, but that's beside the point... . As you went onto the field and you came from the field, on both sides of the door (there was a sign that said) 110 percent. And that's how I relate to that. Your job is to motivate the audience... . I have never failed on a dead audience to get them alive... . If they're dead, it's my fault, not theirs. |
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. |