Ann Demeulemeester Quotes

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.

I never really followed grunge.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I thank God for all the independent hard rock that I grew up with.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.