I don't do anything for the money. I don't need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn't matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.

Rob Zombie

Categorized in : Zombie Niche Retired

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

work-out want people

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for... by Rob Zombie

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

insatiable irresistible creatures

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampe... by Rob Zombie

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

hungry cold lazy

The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.

animal people needs

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

black faster firsts

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expect... by Rob Zombie

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

like-you expectations people

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

white kids thinking

When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.

fixing-things done people

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

views trying people

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

witch fascination wells

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

hurt song kids

Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.

realizing trying sometimes

People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.

tv-shows albums people

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

hurt names thinking

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general... by Rob Zombie

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

general-public likes sometimes

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

new-york jobs thinking

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

zombie want people

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.

flying sound thinking

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do... by Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

fate spiritual believe

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

growing-up lists years