The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Making music is fantastic.
Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.
