John Corabi

If you don't like what you're doing, get out.

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

It's weird, for me as a fan, to have a fan tell me that I'm their favorite singer. It's still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don't know how to respond to it. It's a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.

When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'

Every band has an 'off' night once in a while - that's gonna happen.

There's just some things you can't change.

I had a great run with Ratt.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

The thing I wasn't prepared for was when I wasn't in Motley Crue anymore. 'Cause as much as my phone was ringing, it stopped ringing.

I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.

It doesn't bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I've ever been in or done and says, 'Hey, man, I really like your music. I've never heard of you.' That doesn't bother me at all.

Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.' It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

You've got to adapt - or get out.

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it's not happening.

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?

Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.

People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason.

Looking at it half-full, there was only two singers in Motley, me and Vince, and I'm still here, 25 years later. And whether I like it or not, I'm the other singer for Motley Crue, and not to sound weird, but I've gotten a lot of extra mileage, I think, out of my career because of it, so I have nothing but positive things to say.

We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.

Pretty much every record I've ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I'm proud of everything I've done.

The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

I have fans that write to me and say, 'Why do you have those blonde streaks in the front of your hair?' And I'm like, 'It's not blonde. It's grey.'

I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, 'You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.' And I was like, 'Ooooh. That's how it works.'

Even Nikki with Sixx:A.M., I wish you the best of luck.

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.

My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.

I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I have. I've also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, 'This is the one.' I think that's just human nature.

When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don't realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

I don't know what he wants to do musically, but at the end of the day, I love Mick Mars - he's one of the sweetest human beings you'll ever meet in your life - and anything I can do to help him with his solo record, I would be more than happy to do.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.