Al Jourgensen Quotes

Author Image

Al Jourgensen

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 9, 1958

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Al Jourgensen

I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.

Al Jourgensen

If you remember the '90s, you weren't there.

Al Jourgensen

I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day.

Al Jourgensen

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.

Al Jourgensen

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

Al Jourgensen

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

Al Jourgensen

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Al Jourgensen

I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.

Al Jourgensen

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

Al Jourgensen

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

Al Jourgensen

Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.

Al Jourgensen

We'll see if we ever do another Ministry gig again or not. I'm not saying yes or no yet. All I'm saying is I know there's no new Ministry studio CDs coming ever again. I promise.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Al Jourgensen

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Al Jourgensen

I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.

Al Jourgensen

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

Al Jourgensen

I never read comic books as a kid.

Al Jourgensen

Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.

Al Jourgensen

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Al Jourgensen