On your new CD, Glenn, 6:66 Satan's Child, you have a song "Cold Eternal." Do you like sunlight?
Huh. No, I don't. I know it's necessary but I don't really like it that much.

Was Edgar Allen Poe, do you think, the greatest American horror writer of the 19th century, 19th century?
Uh, probably.

And of the 20th century? Do you have any favourites, now that we're ending it?
Um, I don't know if he's the greatest writer but he sure can set a mood. I don't know if he can tell that great a story but, um, H.P. Lovecraft was awesome.

Do you have any of his collection? Like a bound-in-vellum collection of H.P. Lovecraft?
No. I'd rather read him on like musty smelly pages... like that.

The song you wrote for Johnny Cash, "13," which is also on 6:66 Satan's Child has a line in it, "When the ink starts to itch, then the black will turn to red." Is that autobiographical?
Um, it kind of is, yeah, but it is more, in other words, it's a take on, you know, when somebody starts... pissing, you know, in this case, I wrote the song about Johnny Cash, my impression of him. I wrote it for him. Um, it's my impression of like if you have a tattoo and if someone is pissing you off and it starts to itch, that means it's going to be blood.

So it's not literally like paint then, and all that? I guess I was thinking of ink. I thought it might have been an allusion to like... Danzig cover bands or Misfits cover bands.
No.

Because actually my friend Rob Nesbitt and his pal Kent, who I was mentioning earlier, who tried to see you in Seattle, you know, actually a little while back did a Misfits tribute band called the Astro Zombies where they did Danzig and Samhain stuff and-
(laughs)

What do you think of bands like that like Plan 9 or... the Astrozombies or Misfits cover bands?
I think some of them are better than the Misfits actually right now. (laughs) That's my atti - you know, that's the way I see it. It's sad but true.

Some of them are pretty authentic. Like, Rob, he painted like three pairs of gloves and he had a seamstress cut the same indent you had on your gloves in the Misfits!
Uh huh.

And then he like cut and sewed his own Captain Harlock shirt, had two skeletons shirts, a simple one and another one modelled on a zipper that he saw you wearing on some other shirt.
Man, I just painted it on a fucking longsleeve T-shirt. (laughs)

Really?
That's it. Yeah. (laughs)

Like he spent hours. And he spent a hell of a time getting tight T-shirts as well.
Yeah. I used to do this one thing where I would collect the sleeves, and also the collars, I would put snaps on them. That's about it.

So he went to all this length doing it! I guess he was wondering... where do you get tight T-shirts? Do you, like, on tour, do you ever go to like the women's section of a thrift shop and look for tight fitting shirts? How do you find those tight fitting shirts? How do you find those tight fitting shirts, Glenn?
Um, if you want a tight fitting shirt, the easiest way is if you're like a medium, you buy a small. (laughs) It's pretty simple.

But how about finding some uh-
Your friend should invest in some braincells! (laughs)

Well how about really small ones? Have you ever gone to like a K-Mart and tried on a kiddie sized shirt, or one of those Incredible Hulks ones? Does that work well?
No, it doesn't work well. As a matter of fact, um, Jay from Orgy was like into, while we were doing the mixing, he was into like wearing shirts that were like... eighteen sizes too small. (laughs) I mean, I remember me and Eerie trying to make like, uh, Garbage Pail Kids T-shirts fit us, you know, we were trying to get the largest kiddie size that there was, but they just didn't fit! (laughs)

How did you, did you buy them? Or were you trying them on right in the K-Mart? How did you-
Oh, yeah, you had to buy them. So you try and buy a kids large or extra-large, and try and you know, fit into it, but it just wouldn't work and it would just start ripping up the sides or whatever, so I would just save it for my collection or whatever.

They didn't let you try them on in the store or anything then, eh?
No, but it wouldn't work anyway because then if you rip you'd got to pay for it anyway.

Have you ever played a gig in Danzig, the city of Danzig?
No.

Because that was like the free city that was like the flashpoint for World War II and it was also the-
That was the German city that was taken away from them.

Yeah, it was also where the movie Tin Drum was set.
Uh.

Have you ever seen Tin Drum?
Yeah.

And now it is known as Gdansk, where Solidarity's Lesh Walennza was from.
Wow!

And Glenn, you have brought a lot of joy into people's lives. A guy I know is a courier in LA, and he says, you know, you've made it in LA when you're like, your day has been made-- because he has been doing all these menial tasks --when you are like driving through Hollywood Hills and you see Glenn Danzig, shirtless, washing his Porsche in Hollywood Hills! It's just like... you've totally made it. And Beck has also commented on this in an interview recently, are you a big fan of Beck, Glenn?
No. (laughs)

Not NoMeansNo, or Beck either! Because this is what Beck said recently in an interview where he was interviewed driving throughtout Los Angeles, "Everything's going upscale around here," Beck says, scanning the manicured lawns and homes, "except for Glenn Danzig's house." The horror-rocker lives in a quaintly sepulchral hacienda with a large pile of bricks out front. "He's had that stack of bricks there for about eight years now," Beck says. "I think it's a statement."
Yeah. It's a statement that I ain't Beck. And I ain't "going upscale." How's that?

That's for sure! Is there a pile of bricks outside your house?
Sure is.

Wow oh boy - wow, that's, that's wild to think that Beck might have been driving out in your neighbourhood looking for inspiration.
(laughs)

And Glenn Danzig, on the Danzig Home Video, the security guards have T-shirts that say "God Don't Like It." What does god not like?
Uh, God doesn't like anybody calling his shit out.

Calling his shit out.
I was exposing how phony all, mostly all religion is.

Now there's lesbianism in the Bible too, isn't there? Like in the Old Testaments the matriarchs-
There's everything in there.

Yeah, but what was the most surprising thing you found in there? Just for beginners in the Old Testament? The matriarchs lie together?
There's lots of different stuff in there that would, would shock people and then when you tell people they don't believe it like that, where human sacrifice appears, and when you tell them that God asked Abraham to kill his son, I mean, people say, "No, that's not in the Bible." I'm like, "Yeah, it's in the Bible, man." They had to do animal and human sacrifices to God. "No, they never did." Yup, they did. (laughs)

Are you still into Pee Wee Herman? You know, like, "I'm Shaving!"
Uh, Pee Wee Herman? Pee Wee Herman hasn't done anything in a long time. I like the old HBO show. I don't like his TV series. It's pretty bland.

Do you have any of his dolls? Because you have a big toy collection, I understand. Glenn, do you have any-
No, no, I gave them all away to people a long time ago. London is into Pee Wee Herman.

Are you into giving bones out as Christmas presents or anything? Or just bones as gifts for people?
No.

Is it really that frustrating that there is only one distributor for comic books? Is there any other way to get them into the stores?
No, it's pretty much a monopoly.

How can that... be? At least with records there's a few, or there's like indie distributors.
Um, the main company, Diamond, put them all out of business. (laughs)

And, do you have any plans of what you can do for this? Are you having trouble getting distro for your stuff.
Well of course we will have trouble because our stuff is pretty extreme and pretty hardcore. Um, the only thing we can do is sell it on the Internet and mailorder, and try and get it into some mom and pop stores that don't deal with um, don't deal with Diamond, and that's about it. And then we have to deal with Diamond.

Does it have to be with a comic book distributor? Like for-
No, it can be with anybody. We haven't signed an exclusive with anybody so we can sell to lots of different people. Hey man, I've got to go answer the door. I'm the only guy here.

Okay, uh, Glenn, just one last thing. Who do you think would win a fight, Satan or Superman?
Um. Satan.

And, Glenn Danzig, doot doola doot doo....
Whatever.

Doot doola doot doo...
You're nuts!