Glenn Danzig Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Actually when I signed with Def Jam and Rick (Rubin) and I put the band together that was the original concept, to play with different guys for every record.

Ah, I don't know that I won one for Satan. I'm not out to win anything for Satan.

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

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

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.

Comics wouldn't look the way they do right now - and some of the stories you're seeing - would not be the way they are if it wasn't for us.

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

I got tired of complaining about this or that so I just decided to amass, in my opinion, the best artists and some of the best writers.

I just told you I wasn't a Satanist.

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

I see two retarded political parties in our country that don't represent the masses.

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 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.

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

I'm also going to direct this movie. It's a turn of the century piece called Ge ROUGE. It's got zombies with some early New Orleans voodoo.

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

If you're a journalist and you're reviewing a book, you should try and explain what the book is about from different aspects.

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!

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.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

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

OK, so instead of doing it that way and actually maybe being more successful and maybe starting to sell out a little, we put the breaks on.

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.

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.

So, as soon as people find out about Internet radio stations like HardRadio, all the sudden, the rules have changed. We're talking, listeners from all over the world!

Supernatural, different theologies. I've been involved in that since I was a kid.

That's the thing I hate about Christianity is that it tries to enslave people, which is what all organized religions try to do.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

Wars have always started over religion.

We changed everything in comics.

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.

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

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

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

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.

Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

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

Trivia

The Misfits carved out a niche in punk music by singing almost exclusively about horror movies. Glenn Danzig wrote all the lyrics and music.

With the exception of the two songs on the "Less Than Zero" soundtrack and the covers listed below all songs on every album he has made are solely credited to Glenn Danzig.

Has only recorded 4 cover songs in his entire career. "Rat Fink" by Allan Sherman in 1979. "The Hunter" by Albert King in 1988. "Trouble" by Elvis Presley in 1992. "Hand of Doom" by Black Sabbath in 1996.

Is a huge X-Files fan and contributed a song called "DEEP" to the compilation album "Songs in The Key of X: Music Inspired From and inspired by The X-Files" This same song appeared in the episode "Syzygy" of the X-files.

Is an avid weightlifter and practices Jeet Kune Do.

His breakthrough hit song "Mother" only became popular on MTV nearly 5 years after it was released on the first Danzig album.

The lettering for the bands "Samhain" and "Danzig" are both exactly the same and are borrowed from the title's font for "The Giant Gila Monster".

With the exception of a different drummer the last lineup for "Samhain" and the first lineup for "Danzig" were exactly the same.

His first band The Misfits became famous again after Metallica recorded and popularized covers of three Misfits songs: "Last Caress", "Green Hell" and the most famous of these three "Die, Die My Darling"

Wrote a song for Johnny Cash, "Thirteen," which Cash recorded for his 1994 album _American Recordings_. Danzig later recorded it with his own band for their 1999 album _Danzig 666: Satans Child_.

Was offered the role of Wolverine in X-Men (2000), but turned it down due to a scheduling conflict during the time of filming.

Was number 16 on VH1's "Top 40 Most Badass Rockstars".

Met Jerry Only in high school, and then formed the Misfits.

He is best friends with Henry Rollins (Black flag, The Rollins band).