Here's what Meat Loaf had to say in a wide-ranging interview with Billboard’s Ray Waddell:
[Asked about his new music and tour] There’s a certain expectation from fans who want to hear those songs how you slayed ‘em on the original records.
Yeah, when you’re 26, your voice has a certain timbre. When you’re 68, your voice no longer has that timbre. I’ve had three vocal surgeries now, and three sinus surgeries. Adele canceled a tour with a hemorrhaging vocal cord, I did a tour in Australia with a hemorrhaging vocal cord. I was spitting blood every night on stage. And I’ve got nothing but grief and major hostility. I gave those people everything I had and more. I had flown 44 people to Australia, we’re all sitting there. Insurance wouldn’t cover the band and everybody going back, so I just said, "OK, let’s go." In New Zealand at the last show, I was warming up, and it was like you’re slicing a vegetable and you cut your finger really bad and it’s bleeding everywhere, that’s how blood was coming out of my throat. It was just running out of my throat.
