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.

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.

Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

Bat Out of Hell III

The day that I ever become hip… please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

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.

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.

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...

Though it’s cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

You know, getting on a bus or getting on a plane and doing whatever, that will just – it just kills me. I know it sounds stupid, but it’s exhausting. You know, and then you’ve...

Don’t worry about the future, sooner or later it’s the past. If they say the feeling’s gone then it’s time to take it back.

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...

I swore I would love you ’til the end of time, so now I’m praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive.

That emotional thing does not change,

Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work.

Not that I have hangovers the next day (after a show), … but it feels like one after I’m finished.

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.

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...

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...