Former MÖTLEY CRÜE and current THE DEAD DAISIES singer John Corabi was recently interviewed by the Impact metal channel. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).
On the lyrics of THE DEAD DAISIES‘ song “Resurrected”:
John: “I think with MÖTLEY CRÜE, a lot of people wrote me off when Vince [Neil] came back. For me, ‘Resurrected’ is just like I’m saying, ‘I’m still here; I’m still having fun; and I’m still going.’ I think that one probably lyrically is my favorite [new song].”
On the song from his catalog that means the most:
John: “I could probably tell you if you picked any song in my entire catalog, all the way back to THE SCREAM, MÖTLEY, UNION, now with THE DAISIES, pretty much any song, I could probably tell you why I wrote it, what I was thinking when I wrote it. I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from THE SCREAM album — ‘Father, Mother, Son’. It’s a slow song, but a lot of people write to me and say, ‘Oh, my father passed away,’ or, ‘My mother passed away,’ and that song is for some reason, it resonates with a lot of different people. That one is probably the one that I get the most response from.”
On fan adulation:
John: “It’s still odd to me, because I’m still a music fan myself. When fans come to me and they say, ‘You’re my favorite singer in rock music,’ and I go, ‘What about Steven Tyler?’ ‘No, I like you better.’ ‘What about Robert Plant?’ ‘I like you better.’ That’s kind of weird to me, because I’m like, ‘No, dude — Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.’ It’s weird for me as a fan to have a fan tell me that I’m their favorite singer. It’s still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don’t know how to respond to it. It’s a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.”