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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

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

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.