Meat Loaf

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

“My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.”

“In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.”

“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's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.”

“To me, a song is new every time I sing it.”

“'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.”

“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.”

“Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.”

“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.”

“My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.”

“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.”

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

“I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.”

“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.”

“I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.”

“When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.”

“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.”

“The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!”

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