My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
From Meat Loaf
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.
It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.
I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
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'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.
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.
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.
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