Quotes from Meat Loaf

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

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.

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.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

I really like Bruno Mars.

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.

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

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.

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.

The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red.

There ain't no coupe de Ville hidin' in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

Baby you're the only thing in this whole world That's pure and good and right And wherever you are and wherever you go There's always gonna be some light

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost.