MICHAEL SCHENKER On Internet Haters: 'The More Famous You Are, The More S**t You Get'

May 17, 2013

Mark Dean of Myglobalmind webzine recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarist Michael Schenker (UFO, SCORPIONS). You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud player below. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow.

Myglobalmind: Are you a religious man?

Michael: I don't know what that means. I have body, mind and soul and I am all of that. It's good to look after all three aspects in order to keep a balance.

Myglobalmind: Are you proud of your past, of what you have achieved?

Michael: Well, it's all development. Everything was special at the time when it was done because it was always the now. I don't really necessarily look back. If I look back, I had a great journey, for sure. I like the now because the past has been done. I dealt with it and so my focus is more on the now than even in the future. I may have a blueprint of what is coming up, [for example] of what the tour is, the dates. [But] I don't know what I am going to be doing further down the road.

Myglobalmind: Are you happy now? You seem to be very positive, very upbeat.

Michael: Life for me is about… I have two tattoos, one is "Born to be free" and [the other] one is "Born to overcome." My whole life, I knew that it was about overcoming. That is what I am focusing on. In general, I love to play and discover, to learn and discover; that's what I love doing. Yes, that is what life is for — to develop to that point. Out of confusion into more understanding; that is what life offers.

Myglobalmind: There has been a lot of shit talked about you over the years, and the accessibility of the Internet in modern times can only add to that.

Michael: Yes, but that goes with life — the more famous you are, the more shit you get. I am blessed and totally grateful because I am not sticking out like a sore thumb, and I'm not totally unknown. I am in a very comfortable place where I can enjoy lots of peace and still have… It's a very good place that I am in. I don't go into a supermarket and see a big headline about myself, shit about shit that doesn't even exist, or paparazzi coming up and disturbing my peace. I don't have that, so I can walk around and have my peace. That used to happen, though, and it would get on my nerves. When I was younger, people kept running after me and telling me, "Schenker is God." I couldn't deal with that, you know. I didn't want to know about that.

Read the entire interview from Myglobalmind webzine.

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