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Quotes from John Corabi

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'
~ John Corabi
From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
Everybody that I've ever played with is awesome, and I've learned from all of them, so it's all good.
~ John Corabi
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?
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.
~ John Corabi
I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.
~ John Corabi
The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
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.
~ John Corabi
I have fans that write to me and say, 'Why do you have those blonde streaks in the front of your hair?' And I'm like, 'It's not blonde. It's grey.'
~ John Corabi
I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.
~ John Corabi
For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'
~ John Corabi
I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, 'You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.' And I was like, 'Ooooh. That's how it works.'
~ John Corabi
I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.
~ John Corabi