Meat Loaf Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

You know, getting on a bus or getting on a plane and doing whatever, that will just - it just kills me. I know it sounds stupid, but it's exhausting. You know, and then you've got to go back through customs and that's too much.

Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work.

They expect the best that I can give them on that night, ... It all comes back from playing high school football. There were a couple of signs (in the locker room) and the head coach misspelled a couple, but that's beside the point... . As you went onto the field and you came from the field, on both sides of the door (there was a sign that said) 110 percent. And that's how I relate to that. Your job is to motivate the audience... . I have never failed on a dead audience to get them alive... . If they're dead, it's my fault, not theirs.

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

Not that I have hangovers the next day (after a show), ... but it feels like one after I'm finished.

I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent to Faith Hill. Because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it.

But I never used it as a crutch, never-because you can't do that. Anybody that does that is wrong, because you have to take responsibility for your own actions. You can't blame everybody around you.

If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

Open your eyes, I've got a big surprise, it will feel alright, I want to make your motor run.

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm every gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

There ain't no Coupe Deville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

There has storm clouds come over the United States,

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell

Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.

I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.