Wayne Static

“I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.”

“I have some drinks at night but that's it.”

“I realized how important it was to have a good team - manager, attorney and label. It's not just about putting out a record and somebody signing you.”

“You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.”

“I actually re-signed with Warner Bros. on my own. They've been really good to us and all the people over there are great; they love me and I love them. So I'm just sticking with them.”

“We didn't have that big-label push. We weren't the kind of band that our label Warner Bros. Records was going to throw all this money at. Their idea was to support us on the road and see what happens. It was a very slow building process.”

“I remember when we were mixing our record and our manager was in there going, 'You guys need to sing more, so it can be on the radio.' And we were like 'What? We're never going to get played on the radio. Who cares? What are you talking about?'”

“Here's what it comes down to: I've been making records and touring for over 10 years now. I'm very successful living it, doing it... I'm with an absolutely beautiful wife that's half my age.”

“The studio can be quite tedious.”

“Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.”

“Pighammer' is what I envisioned the first Static-X record to be; trancier, a bigger electronic vibe with more keyboards.”

“We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.”

“Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.”

“Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.”

“But anytime at a metal show, fans are going to be going crazy.”

“This 'Pighammer' record is supposed to be a side project. And it just so happens that at the same time I'm recording this record, our contract was up with Warner Bros., so it's time for Static-X to re-sign.”

“We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.”

“It's been a long time since I lived in Michigan, but I did grow up there for 18 to 20 years of my life. It does feel my home state.”

“I can play whatever I want and play whatever the fans want to hear. I don't have to be like a salesperson up there talking about my CD through the whole show.”

“When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.”