You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s.

I can't go to school, cause I don't have a gun. I ain't got a gun, cause I ain't got a job. I ain't got a job, cause I can't go to school.

Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.