My purpose is to write, be creative; to take my God-given talent and do something positive with it.Collection: Positive
People can call us chauvinist pigs. We expect it. But there are two definitions of chauvinism. One is an unfounded loyalty to one's own sex. We don't have that. The other definition is having a fanatical patriotism toward women. And we do. So go ahead and say we're chauvinists.Collection: Patriotism
You don't have to act like a biker from hell to be a man. That's not what being a man is about. It's about being a responsible human being, with some decent values - and taking care of business.
I was a drummer for 20-some years before I had to sell my drums to move to Los Angeles. Once I got here, people said, 'Oh, you can sing and you have blonde hair. You're going to be a lead singer.'
I play drums every chance I get. That's the love of my life.
Literally, there's not a song that I've done, and I've written a lot of songs... there's not a song that I've done that I can't sit down and do acoustically for you. Including 'Cherry Pie.'
Cherry Pie' was a fun song.
Instead of singing hard rock, I could just as easily be singing 'The Fantastiks' or 'Pajama Game' somewhere.
I was offered a musical-theater scholarship at Kent State. But I turned it down. I was too into rock 'n' roll to consider another career.
For some guys, they associate loud, tough, gutsy music with being male. It is very masculine music. There's a whole sexy thing - a masculine sexy thing - about hard rock and heavy metal that pulls guys in.
We've always had a base following, that's been our life-support system.
The band is all about 'party'; we're a glam band. To turn it into something else... it hasn't worked.
We've continued to make records and tour, we've kept working.
I think I'm much more interested in longevity than in being the world's greatest anything.
I've been broke for years. Easy come, easier gone.
It would have been better if the first album sold well, the second sold better and the third really took off. Maybe that would've prepared me a little better for it. But the first time you ever release an album, to have it sell millions - it's a tough act to follow.
My first year in L.A., I was in a band called Plain Jane, which is where the whole name Jani came from.
I much prefer Tampa to L.A.
I hate L.A.
I love Tampa.
The guys in Great White have been really pleasant to work with. They're very professional. For them, it's all about sounding good for the fans and coming home and taking care of business.
I don't believe in censorship.
When critics say we're no good, it's just the cool thing to do. I'm happy with the songs I write.
I'm not founded on the notion that any press is good press.
I'm more than willing to face the consequences for my bad decisions.
I love the Warrant songs. I wrote them from the heart, but I have a side to my songwriting that a lot of people may be unaware of.
I'm like anyone else. I'm sure people who write, paint or whatever. They think whatever they just did is their best.
I give a lot of credit to 'Cherry Pie.' It has stood the test of time. It's a little catchy. It's a little tongue-in-cheek. It is probably not the most complicated song I have ever written but to write a song that is used as a measuring stick for a genre of music.
Uncle Tom's Cabin' is another one of my favs as is 'Song & Dance Man'! I have favorites for different reasons.
Stronger Now' is a song from 'Ultraphobic' that I originally wrote to go on 'Dog Eat Dog' but didn't make it but I thought it should have!! I think it is a very well written song.
Not having a stable home life, and then not having a good stable belief system, or whatever, has always sent me into a tailspin just as soon as I hit the road.
It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.
It got pretty hot and heavy there for a while with the '80s bashing.
I understand things go out of fashion believe me, there are pictures of myself I can't even look at now.
We have always been a big fan of party songs, and we don't think a politically significant song is any harder to write than a good, fun party song.
For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.
If I have to sing 'Cherry Pie' one more time in my life I'm going to throw up.
You gotta see what the town's about. That's the only way you can really meet people and get a feel for each city.
Every city has its own character.
There's something great about every city we go to and you never find out what it is unless you get out of your hotel room and out of the backstage and go see what it's like.
We normally change the' set around to adapt to who we're playing with on tour.
I've been playing clubs since I was 11.
When we go out and play, a lot of people show up. It's a strange thing to me. I don't want to jinx it.
Music has always been a part of my life since before kindergarten.
There are a lot of people out there that have stayed loyal to us, so I'd like to stay loyal to them, too.
We jumped on a train in the mid-80s, and that train was 'hair metal.'
I moved out to L.A. from Cleveland. I had long blond hair and I sang high, so the powers that be said, 'Hair metal. Let's let Suzie over here put on some makeup for you, a little Aqua-net, and you're on your way.'
Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of.
Does '80s metal have the potential to come back as a kitschy, goofy subculture, sort of like disco? Sure. And that would be cool But there's never going to be a day when Warrant headlines the Giganto-Dome in every major city in America. Nobody intelligent expects that to happen.
If I have one piece of advice for anyone going into music, it would be this: Never, ever give anyone the power of attorney.