When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.
A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.
'Rock Or Bust' is a thing we've always done.
The school suit allows me to be an extrovert. Basically, I'm the opposite of what I am on stage.
When we play live, it's always been a do or die effort. And everything we've ever done has always had that approach.
I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
I think what AC/DC does best is play live. That's when everything comes together. Even after you make a studio album, when you go out and play live, that's when you learn what being in a band is all about.
The places we'd play were full of bikers, brawlers, and drinkers coming off a day of work looking for a good time, and all these guys would be looking at me like Hannibal Lecter looking at his next victim.
Australia is the place I know best.
When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.
Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.
The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.
We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.
When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.
I've always been someone who thought it didn't matter where you were playing. I always shot for the best you could get. It never bothered me if it was small or it was big.
For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.
In the real world, people just get on with their lives. And that's where AC/DC come in.
The hardcore fans have hung with us because they go, 'Hey, they don't disappoint.' And we stick to that style.
The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It's a hard thing.
