Def Leppard Quotes
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Our producer, Mutt Lange, is perfect for us. He doesn't accept what we do and say, 'OK that's great.' He's always pushing us and challenging us. We like to think that we push ourselves, but having someone like Mutt, who you know is going to always give you an honest opinion, is an invaluable help. He's helped make Def Leppard the band it is today.
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We do see in the next few years more opportunities coming again for our company that we've not seen for the last two to three years.
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Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.
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If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
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We're not the type of band that will jump around the dressing room after the show--we ain't got the energy. We sit down and talk very quietly and after twenty minutes everything's back to normal.
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I'm sure it's the same with yourself that when your relationship is good, it changes the way you view the rest of the world.
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My first concert was pretty memorable - Deep Purple at 14. I had a really good childhood, I got along with my parents. I never rebelled. Pretty much all of it was cool. I wouldn't change any of it.
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The groupie situation has been dead for years. We've never really been that big in actually getting involved. I'd say with us, the groupie thing was much more voyeuristic.
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The day anyone in the band can't pour his own drinks is when we end up in a nursing home.
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There's room for everybody - it's not the Olympics. I'd like to be on top, but if the album's successful, that's good enough.
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We've always been a prolific band. Writing good songs has never been a problem.
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They called us 'bludgeon riffola' - it was a complete slag off. So just to show that we didn't really care we picked up on the phrase and used it for the record label.
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Sometimes it's a negative because I still have a memory of some of the things I could do... when I still had two arms.
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The difficulty with all of these things comes around economics and how much of what you see as your baby you are willing to give up to be part of something.
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You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.
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That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.
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The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
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I like working hard and achieving things, so determined, independent, and a nice guy.
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I love watching sports programmes, specifically soccer. Then less so, probably golf. And I like playing golf, as well... If the weather is good, which is not very often in Dublin! And generally, I like reading magazines and books. So that basically takes most of my time up.
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Still waiting, although the last night of the Hysteria shed tour with the guys from Europe was hiliarious.
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We always get lumped into that whole '80s thing, but we were never a part of it. For a start, we weren't even from America. And anything that those bands did, they only did because we started it off. That's the only thing that we can be attached to the blame of.
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For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.
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There's a lot more to being a singer than singing. I don't come off stage thinking that I have a power over people 'cause I don't - it's not a power, it's an ability to be able to communicate with a vast amount of people, something I'm very lucky to be able to do.
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We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.