Editing Glenn Danzig (section)

==Personal life==
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In January 1992, Danzig became a student of [[Jerry Poteet]], a [[martial artist]] in [[Jeet Kune Do]].<ref name="the7thhouse Satan's Child">{{cite web|url=http://www.the7thhouse.com/news/Articles/d6_art6.htm|title=Glenn Danzig Satan's Child|publisher=the7thhouse.com|date=November 10, 1999|access-date=October 9, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705013840/http://www.the7thhouse.com/news/Articles/d6_art6.htm|archive-date=July 5, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="YouTube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlBcD8qqGT8|title=Glenn Danzig trained in Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee|website=[[YouTube]] |year=1992|access-date=August 23, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513103730/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlBcD8qqGT8|archive-date=May 13, 2013 }}</ref> Danzig has since earned a teaching degree in the discipline.<ref name="the7thhouse Satan's Child" /> Danzig has also studied [[Muay Thai]].<ref name="the7thhouse Satan's Child" />

Danzig, who is 5 ft 3 in height,<ref>[https://www.houstonpress.com/music/pocket-rockers-ten-musicians-55-and-under-6506992 Musicians 5'5" And Under] Craig Hlavaty, ''[[Houston Press]]'' (October 29, 2010)</ref> also developed an interest in [[bodybuilding]]:

: “I've always been attracted to the [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] idea of perfection, and so I began trying to perfect my body. I bought [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN BODYBUILDING and started studying. Lifting weights is just lifting weights, but bodybuilding is about sculpting the body. Nutrition is essential, and though I'd like to be eating candy and cake, it immediately settles on my hips. Unfortunately, when I'm on the road I only get to work out a few times weekly, but when I'm at home with my weights and machines I work out four or five times a week.”<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=details.95 |title=ROCK SOLID - Glenn Danzig pumps up his volume |access-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128054854/https://misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=details.95 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Glenn Danzig Atomic Comics Signing.JPG|thumb|Glenn Danzig signing his book at Atomic Comics in Mesa, Arizona (2010)]]
Danzig has several distinctive tattoos, all by tattoo artist Rick Spellman, which incorporate artwork based upon his music.<ref name="Prick Magazine">{{cite news|title=Danzig|newspaper=Prick Magazine|location=USA|date=October 2005|url=http://www.prickmag.net/danzigfeature.html|access-date=October 6, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023154906/http://www.prickmag.net/danzigfeature.html|archive-date=October 23, 2009 }}</ref> These include a Danzig/Samhain skull symbol designed by Michael Golden,<ref>[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/09/06/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-119/ Comic Book Legends Uncovered] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818044840/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/09/06/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-119/ |date=August 18, 2010 }}</ref> a bat with a Misfits Crimson Ghost skull, a wolf's head with the text "Wolfs Blood" (the title of a Misfits song),<ref name="Prick Magazine" /> a skeleton as found on the cover art for the album ''November-Coming-Fire'', and a demon woman as found on the cover art for ''Unholy Passion''. His lower back features the logo for the ''[[Devilman]]'' [[manga]].

Danzig is a fan of [[horror movies]] and [[Anime|Japanese anime]][[manga|/manga]], and has expressed his appreciation for the works of filmmaker [[David Cronenberg]] and manga artist [[Go Nagai]].<ref name="Tales from the Crypt">{{cite news|url=http://www.misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=marticle&f=tales.82|title=Glenn Danzig Interview|publisher=Tales from the Crypt|date=Spring 1982|access-date=October 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927200250/http://misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=marticle&f=tales.82|archive-date=September 27, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Hollywood Book & Poster">{{cite news|url=http://misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=holly.89|title=Glenn Danzig Interview|publisher=Hollywood Book & Poster|date=April 1989|access-date=October 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926101316/http://misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=holly.89|archive-date=September 26, 2010 }}</ref>

Danzig's favorite composers include [[Richard Wagner]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], [[Carl Orff]], and film score composer [[Jerry Goldsmith]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-25-gd-q-a25-story.html|title=60 Seconds with...Glenn Danzig|last=Flaherty|first=Michael|date=October 25, 2007|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 21, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131021230007/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/25/entertainment/gd-q-a25|archive-date=October 21, 2013 }}</ref>

Danzig is an avid reader and owns a large book collection on subjects including the occult, religious history and true murder cases.<ref name="Metal Mania" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Heller |first=Jason |url=https://www.avclub.com/content/node/57114 |title=Deeper into Music With Glenn Danzig &#124; Music |newspaper=The A.V. Club |access-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218233139/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/57114 |archive-date=December 18, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="YouTube Books">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNO9k1TXS0|title=Danzig Home Video|publisher=Def American|year=1990|access-date=October 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214141725/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNO9k1TXS0|archive-date=February 14, 2010 }}</ref> He commented about the book ''[[The Occult Roots of Nazism]]'' that "every school kid should have this book", though he later stated that the comment was satirical.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://flavorwire.com/341690/watch-a-shirtless-glenn-danzig-give-a-tour-of-his-creepy-bookshelf|title=Watch a Shirtless Glenn Danzig Give a Tour of His Creepy Bookshelf|date=October 29, 2012|website=flavorwire.com|access-date=May 7, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204182452/http://flavorwire.com/341690/watch-a-shirtless-glenn-danzig-give-a-tour-of-his-creepy-bookshelf|archive-date=February 4, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-devil-inside-glenn-danzig-63102/|title=The Devil Inside Glenn Danzig|last1=Wild|first1=David|date=March 24, 1994|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=March 11, 2020|archive-date=January 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127022131/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-devil-inside-glenn-danzig-63102/|url-status=live}}</ref> Danzig also has a long-standing interest in [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]]-related conspiracies: "Not only have I always been interested in the families that run the world forever, that people know now as the [[Bilderberg Group]]. But there's an older book called ''[[Committee of 300]]'' which tells you all about it. I mean, I got in trouble for this back in the 90s, talking about this kind of stuff – how the United States is based on a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] thing, and I got so many government files on me from that one".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://portland.thephoenix.com/music/104077-interview-glenn-danzig/?page=4#TOPCONTENT|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021225143/http://portland.thephoenix.com/music/104077-interview-glenn-danzig/?page=4#TOPCONTENT|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2013|title=Interview: Glenn Danzig|last=Brockman|first=Daniel|date=June 21, 2010|newspaper=[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Phoenix]]|access-date=October 21, 2013}}</ref>

Regarding his political views, Danzig has described himself as being "conservative on some issues, and some issues I'm really liberal". He defended former President Donald Trump's controversial [[Executive Order 13769|travel ban from selected countries]], arguing "It's really not a travel ban. When you walk into the country, we want to see who you are and what you're doing."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/danzig-misfits-trump-muslim-travel-ban-2081376|title=Misfits' Danzig defends Trump's Muslim travel ban - NME|date=May 30, 2017|website=nme.com|access-date=May 7, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124139/http://www.nme.com/news/music/danzig-misfits-trump-muslim-travel-ban-2081376|archive-date=February 4, 2018 }}</ref> Danzig has voiced his dissatisfaction with the United States' [[two-party system]]; stating "the bottom line is that both parties are in agreement about one thing: They don't want a third, a fourth, or a fifth party in there. They want it Democratic and Republican. Both sides are corrupt."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unratedmagazine.com/Document.cfm?Page=Articles/index.cfm&Article_ID=250|title=Danzig: Blackest of the Black - Interview with Glenn Danzig|website=UnRated Magazine|access-date=May 7, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212083327/http://www.unratedmagazine.com/Document.cfm?Page=Articles%2Findex.cfm&Article_ID=250|archive-date=February 12, 2018 }}</ref>

Though sometimes portrayed as a [[Satanism|Satanist]] by the media, Danzig has denied this in several interviews, elaborating that "I embrace both my light and dark side{{nbsp}}... I definitely believe in a [[yin and yang]], [[good and evil]]. My religion is a patchwork of whatever is real to me. If I can draw the strength to get through the day from something, that's religion{{nbsp}}... I'm not trying to be preachy or tell people what to think."<ref name="Musician">{{cite web|url=http://www.misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=musician.894|title=Danzig Knows the Power of the Dark Side|last=Young|first=Jon|date=August 1994|publisher=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]|access-date=February 8, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220180845/http://misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=musician.894|archive-date=December 20, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Seconds" /><ref name="In Music We Trust">{{cite web|url=http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/52h06.html|title=Interview: Danzig|last=Harward|first=Randy|date=September 2002|publisher=In Music We Trust|access-date=October 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209041246/http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/52h06.html|archive-date=February 9, 2010 }}</ref><ref name=buzz/> Danzig has voiced his approval of certain aspects of Satanic ideologies, including the quest for knowledge and individual freedom.<ref name="In Music We Trust" /><ref name="Spin">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.spin.com/node/4328|title=The Spin Interview: Glenn Danzig|last=Burk|first=Greg|date=July 2007|magazine=Spin Magazine|access-date=October 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825154049/http://www.spin.com/node/4328|archive-date=August 25, 2010 }}</ref> He has stated that religion does not play a role in how he perceives other bands and musicians.<ref name=buzz>{{cite web|url=http://www.buzzgrinder.com/2010/danzig-interview/ |access-date=November 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031083554/http://www.buzzgrinder.com/2010/danzig-interview/ |archive-date=October 31, 2010|website=buzzgrinder.com|title=DANZIG WATCH 2010: In Which I Talk to Danzig Himself|author=Sean Cannon}}</ref>