Kerry King Quotes (35 Quotes)

When I go there, I can go out everywhere and wherever I go, I can get free booze and hang around like anybody else. It's kind of cool, y'know.

I had to stand guard at the door.

If we had recorded it in America, that record would have cost us a hell of a lot more money to make for the amount of time we spent in the studio.

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well.

In the beginning when I started to write lyrics, I wanted to do something what I haven't done before. So, I threw away the synonym finder.

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

They even didn't know if I would have liked it, so I took it home and made a song up on it and thought I guess I'd better order one.

This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

This is probably the most prepared we've been to record an album since the '80s. We've been writing and cutting demos for months.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

I just saw Jensen the other day. They are gonna be in the States at the same time when we are doing the tour, Se we'll see if we are going to see somewhere.

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.

I fly a lot, so I knew what's gonna be good and what's not. So I put everything into my check bag I think I might need during these flights.

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

This was the first time I lived there for 3 months I became a Canadian for 3 months so to speak. Now Vancouver is like my second home.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

I think we come out as heroes 'coz we came and made the tour happen. But other than that, our fans know that SLAYER is not a political band.