Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.
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.
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
It'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.
For 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.
The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.
You 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.
When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.
There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.
'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.
In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.
Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.
