Eddie Trunk quotes:

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

I've known Bret Michaels forever.

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.

My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

I'm a pretty big news junkie.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.