Brian Posehn Quotes

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

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

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

I wasn't personally that familiar with the Classic Rock bands. That is where Jorn Viggo came in: he played me tons of that stuff - Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, plus a lot of bands with cool songs, riffs, vocals, etc. We really listened to tons of music.

The first time I heard Kiss, I knew that was the type of music I was attracted to.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

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.