But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

America was founded on satanism.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn't see those guys walking around like that.

My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

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

I have an old Shelby '68 Mustang that I don't drive.

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!

I don't really go to the beach.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

I love the energy, and I just love watching people lose their minds and be happy and exhilarated. There is nothing like it.

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.

As a little kid watching horror movies, if you only got to see the monster for the last two minutes of the movie, I thought that movie pretty much sucked.

I just told you I wasn't a Satanist.

When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life - I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma's, and she would take me to the beach.

I don't know that I'm not normal, because usually, when I tell people the things I do, either their jaw drops or they look at me shocked, but I'm sure I do normal things - everyone eats, that kind of stuff.

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

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

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

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

I had a situation where Bill Clinton sent the F.B.I. after me.

I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

Wars have always started over religion.

Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

I like the original Metallica version they did on 'Garage Days' - 'Last Caress' and 'Green Hell.'

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.

It really annoys me when the light turns green, and you're behind somebody, and they're just sitting there looking at the light for about 15, 20 seconds.

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

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

While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

I'm a big Fred Armisen fan.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

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

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.

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