But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It’s not about marketing.

About Warren Cuccurullo

Warren Bruce Cuccurullois an American musician, songwriter, restaurant owner and former bodybuilder who first worked with Frank Zappa during the 1970s. He was also a founding member of Missing Persons in the 1980s.

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You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I’d feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that’s the trigger.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I’m doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don’t move, if you don’t start exercising you’re gonna deteriorate.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

It’s easy to get four days a week of training in and I don’t spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Most of the hotel gym’s are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren’t going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don’t have dumbbells and benches.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80’s.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That’s the key.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It’s not about marketing.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you’re up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

It doesn’t matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I’m a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I’m an old guy.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

Making music is fantastic.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn’t work.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn’t know anything about food.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it’s from training.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

The turning point really is just knowing you’re an imbecile.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

Warren Cuccurullo

American musician, singer, songwriter and former body builder