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.
Meat LoafYou can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.
Meat LoafFor 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.
Meat LoafI 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.
Meat LoafI want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.
Meat LoafEverything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
Meat LoafI'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.
Meat LoafIf you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.
Meat LoafRock 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.
Meat LoafJust ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.
Meat LoafThere 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.
Meat LoafI was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.
Meat LoafIt'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.
Meat LoafMy life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.
Meat LoafYou 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.
Meat LoafI never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
Meat LoafIn the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.
Meat LoafI was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.
Meat LoafI 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.
Meat LoafOpen your eyes, I've got a big surprise, it will feel alright, I want to make your motor run.
Meat LoafA 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.
Meat LoafThere has storm clouds come over the United States. There is thunderstorms over Europe. There are hail storms – and I mean major hail storms – in the Middle East. So I want you to know that there is one man who will stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be – Governor Mitt Romney!
Meat LoafAs most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.
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