45 Quotes by King Diamond

What I really like to do with my music is these concept stories, and I always like to have some life philosophies in the lyrics.

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

I don't take anything for granted anymore, I'll tell you that.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

I lived in a house in Copenhagen that was uber-haunted for many years, with flying teacups and things like that; there was a time when I saw glasses rising off the table, and I took it as a sign of something saying, 'Hey, we're with you.'

I welcome the powers of the unknown.

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 am actually a trained lab assistant.

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.