Quotes from Glenn Danzig

David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

When I started Samhain, I remember a producer telling me that I had a real band now.

I'm lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

America was founded on satanism.

It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like, 'Okay, today,' and someone else is on the side of you, so you can't pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.

There's all kinds of schisms in Satanism, but the thing I like about it is the quest for knowledge.

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

Some of the best sing-along stuff you'll ever hear is Gary Glitter.

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!

We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.

I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.