Steve-O Quotes

I love being a member of KISS.

If I wasn't in the band, I'm a Zombie fan, and I'm a White Zombie fan.

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.

I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.

I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.

I've been a huge Megadeth fan for years.

Slayer is one of my favorite bands of all time, and to be on a tour with them is absolutely a dream come true.

My first concert was Pantera.

I'm a huge Kiss fan.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

Me and Twenty One Pilots would be wonderful.

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.