Meat Loaf quotes:

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.

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.

There has storm clouds come over the United States,

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

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

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

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.

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

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

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

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

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

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.