Metal: A Headbanger's Journey2005

Dee Snider:
[On being asked to testify before the Senate about music censorship] They wanted me to carry the flag into battle. Hell yeah! Braveheart baby! Braveheart wasn't even out. But that sort of mentality. Gimme the f***in' flag man! Let's go! I knew that they were, like everybody else, grossly underestimating me, I knew that they viewed me as just another dunderheaded rocker, and they would bring me in, make me look like a fool, and that I would help their cause. They didn't know that I could construct a sentence, and speak English fluently. And I'm there in my cutoff denim, my skin-tight jeans, my snakeskin boots, and a little bit of eye makeup left on underneath, and my big hair, and I ain't gettin' dressed up for nobody, I'm a dirtbag and I'm proud. And I'm playing these people. Like you know mentally I am setting these guys up for the kill. I've got my speech in my back pocket, which I have worked on for a few weeks, and honed and refined until it's a frickin' nuclear weapon, folded up like a gazillion times like a bad kid bringing his homework to school, and you know I'm opening it up and flattening it out on the table, really delivering, and these guys are going "Oh man this is a lamb being brought to the slaughter." And I started reading.