The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.
I come from New York. It's busy. It's populated. It's noisy. It's loud.
We always had so many kids in our family, running around the yard, sweaty little kids jumping in and out of the pool, the front door and back doors swinging open and shut, all of the parents getting pissed off telling us to stay outside.
I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.
I grew up knowing a lot about LSU watching them on TV. They were always on TVI had a bunch of friends and family at LSU. It's a cool stadium. I never got to go to it. I heard it's really a special place. It's a big place. It's intimidating. It's loud. We have to play really good there. I'm looking forward to playing there.
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
I love the filmmaking process. It can be loud sometimes, and people love having conference calls, so working on a book is the polar opposite. It's very relaxing.
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
If I can hear the music then no, I don't hit a wrong note. But if I can't hear the music because the audience is screaming or the sound system is bad, then I'm subject to stray.
Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.
Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk.
