“I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.”

“I’d like to feel that everyone would recognize that Judas Priest was the first true heavy metal band. I think there is a special attachment to Judas Priest and metal. We were the first band to really go out and claim ourselves to be a real metal band.”

“My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.”

“I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys – some very rare stuff.”

“I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.”

“When you have worked in the industry as long as I have; you figure out the dreams and the reality of the business are not what you initially thought. There are many misconceptions, but the desire to do what you love keeps you dreaming up ways to change the business side.”

“There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it’s called Metallica.”

“I kiss grandmas because they’re clean. I haven’t picked anything up from a grandma yet.”

“Life’s too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.”

“The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles – like they stayed up later.”

“When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let’s all have a party; I’ve lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.”

“I’m afraid of happy people. They’re chemically unbalanced.”

“You know, I’ve always said, I’ve never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I’ve always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.”

“I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.”

“Rock is about finding who you are. You don’t necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.”

“I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the ’80s and ’90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.”

“If I can’t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don’t really see the point of being on this planet.”

“You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town.”