Def Leppard Quotes
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How do you know when the drum riser is level? The drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth!
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Obviously it was shagging. I used to have this Escort van, and I used to f*ck in it all the time in it. One night I was f*cking some girl and a copper shines his torch in through the window. My arse is going up and down and he's going, 'What are you doing in there, sir?' And I'm like, 'What the f*ck do you think I'm doing?
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Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
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With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.
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To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.
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I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
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I started out in a band called Atomic Mass. We played a lot of old Thin Lizzy and T. Rex tunes in clubs. We fired our vocalist one day and hired Joe in his place. That's when things started to happen. We got Steve Clark and Rick Allen to join up and Def Leppard was born.
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Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
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We were not into punk. We were all heavy rock fans before we formed this band.
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With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I persevered with them.
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I never really enjoyed sex with groupies though. It's like having a wank - you get 30 seconds of guilt when you've finished.
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We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
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There are networks of groupies - and nowadays it's instant because of the internet. Before, it took days to tell your penpal 'I just had Jimi Hendrix'. Nowadays, 20 minutes after you've zipped your trousers up, it's in New Zealand! Somebody e-mailed me a groupie website that I was on, and there was somebody describing my tackle. It was flattering but completely fucking wrong - I'd be the first to say that I don't have a ten-and-a-half-inch dick!
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We used to have two album name columns for Hysteria. There wasn't much in the 'serious' column. Animal Instincts is the only one I can remember. Then there was the 'joke' column. Most of the titles in that one were takeoffs on Pyromania, like Paranoia. One of those was Hysteria. As I remember it, Rick came up with that one. He meant it as a joke, but it caught us all in a serious moment and, for some reason, it stuck. Peter Mensch liked it, Joe said, 'Well, it's alright,' and I said, 'I don't mind.' So it stuck. Nobody objected to it, anyway.
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I was having a rare weekend back in Sheffield at my local pub and somebody asked me what we were going to call the new album. I said I wasn't sure yet. Somebody turned around and said, "Why don't you call it Halley's Comet? It comes around about as often.' In fact, Halley's Comet has already been out and we are still recording.
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At first all we wanted to do was be successful in our home town.
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That's very hard to define. I guess, commitment. I don't believe in love at first sight. I'm in love with my wife, but I don't always feel the same level of love. Your emotions go up and down. The strongest love is between family members, and ultimately, it boils down to commitment.
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Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
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When we first entered the music business, we didn't know very much about recording. Then, after working with Mutt Lange, we thought we knew everything there was about the studio. But just as we were getting cocky, along came video and we had whole new set of rules and regulations to learn about - it was a totally alien form to us. After all, we were just kids off the streets of Sheffield, what did we know about television except how to turn one on?
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If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.
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Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.
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I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.
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Well, I'm getting better. It'll never be as it was. It affected the right side of my face. It's no big deal. You look at this guy here, and to think I've got problems.
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Rock and roll has always been very basic. The actual relationship between a man and a woman is different for everyone on the planet. One of the truest forms of contact is singing about boy-meets-girl. I can strut like a peacock on stage, but that's about as far as it goes. It's up to other people to see what they see. We're not overtly sexual in the sense that we go around wearing codpieces.