TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider recently spoke with Fox News about his new autobiography, Shut Up And Give Me The Mic. Check out the interview footage below:

BW&BK;'s Mitch Lafon recently caught up with Snider and discussed the new book. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

BraveWords.com: Let’s talk about your Shut Up And Give Me The Mic book. Why an autobiography at this point?

Snider: “The book only goes up to 1993. One of my managers said, ‘you have interesting stories and you are such a great story teller that you should write a book.’ No one’s been knocking on the door, but he went a shopped it and Simon & Schuster signed me up. They said, ‘what do you want to write about?’ And I said I wanted to write about the rise and fall of Dee Snider. I want to tell the story from the day I decided to be a rock star to how everything came apart at the seams and I lost everything. So, that’s the story I tell and I wrote every word.”

BraveWords.com: No ghost writers?

Snider: “No ghosts. No co-writer. They didn’t want me to write it, but I said, ‘let me write a few chapters and if you don’t like it I’ll get a co-writer.’ They loved it. They said I had a great ‘voice’ and was a ‘great story teller.’”

BraveWords.com:  That’s interesting - there’s always been this weird perception that Dee Snider is a big dummy. You went to the PMRC hearings and their attitude was ‘dumb rock star about to talk’ and yet you impressed them. You did Celebrity Apprentice and you mentioned that you’ve never ‘drank’ or done ‘drugs’ and the newspapers ran with that headline...

Snider: “A big shocker - I know...”

BraveWords.com: The perception is that you’re this drugged out dummy. Now, Simon & Schuster appears to think ‘don’t let the dumb rock star write’. What’s the problem?

Snider: “My editor is a fan and he knows I’m not an idiot, but writing is a craft. It’s not just something that you do. Taking words from your head and putting them on a piece of paper in a cohesive way that engages people... You know all that.”

BraveWords.com: But you’re a writer too. You wrote songs...

Snider: “And I write screenplays too. I never wrote prose, but I felt that I could write and they loved it. They said they wanted 70,000 words and I delivered 210,000 and they edited it down to 140,000. I had to write that story as it comes out. I can’t be self-editing. I don’t know what’s interesting and what’s me blowing smoke up my own ass. I’m not objective, but it’s written by me and being clean and sober I’m an observer of the decade of decadence as well as a participant. I have the ability to step back and go ‘this was the Reagan era.’ This is from my view - why this music form became what it became. It’s a unique book and I hope very inspirational because I’m that guy that just never gave up. I fought and clawed. People will read it and come away going ‘wow’.”

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