I am very inspired by the Seventies.
I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.
I have a braided metal wire going down the middle of my chest underneath my skin. I saw it on an X-ray of it; it looks like a piece of jewelry.
When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?
People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't have to say certain things. It can be anyone.
King Diamond was always more satanic than Mercyful Fate. And I'm not saying anything bad about Mercyful Fate - I love that band but sometimes people forget that King Diamond is the satanic philosophy through and through.
I don't need five Ferraris in my garage to feel great; that's not what matters to me.
Texas is more laid back, like Denmark is. So it was easier to adjust to that than to Los Angeles or New York for me.
You are not worshipping anything when you are a Satanist.
I've always been fascinated by horror.
I am an entertainer and don't believe I should use this position to preach to anyone about who they should be voting for. Others might disagree, but that's the way I feel.
Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.
I don't like being away from home.
When we are on the road, we do a real horror show - and it's pure entertainment. That's it.
I don't force anything onto other people, because you'll never get a good satanist out of forcing somebody to be one.
I don't like award ceremonies.
I don't take tomorrow for granted.
I don't believe in one God, and I would be the last person to say there is one because there is no real proof there is a God, and there has been no one person to prove to the world there is a God.
I was lucky that I had parents that had had supernatural experiences, so I could talk to them openly without them looking at me as some lunatic.
I hate touring. But being onstage is one of the absolute best things I know in my life. And it is so good, it makes up for all the bad.
