Al Jourgensen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.”

“Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.”

“I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.”

“I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.”

“I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.”

“We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.”

“I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.”

“I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.”

“Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.”

“The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.”