I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.
I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.
I want to do something creative, not just easy.
You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.
I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?
Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.
If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.
Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.
The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.
I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.
You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.
It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.
Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.
Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.
I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.
I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.
America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.
It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.
I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.
You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.
I acted in millions of TV shows.
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
I do Skid Row every night.
What is music for? It's to make you feel good.
I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.
My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.
I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
