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Andrew WK’s I Get Wet was released in 2001. Metalheads recommended it because the drummer was in Obituary. In 2014 Andrew WK hosted a children’s television show. And wrote an advice column for The Village Voice. In addition to releasing a highly influential metal/party album and working with kids and giving sound advice he’s also opened a successful venue in Manhattan, put out a record of piano instrumentals, lectured at Yale and irked negative people around the world.

Next month, Andrew WK will do something he’s never done: perform on a cruise. Andrew WK will be on 2015’s Shiprocked. We’ll be there too. So we began with an obvious question…

What are you currently wearing?

Boxer shorts, socks and a white t-shirt.

Your wife is also a performer.

This is correct.

How often do you two have to do laundry?













That’s very kind of you although you have a selective memory…






Pretty much.







I believe that destiny is not in my power.

When did you change your idea about that?

At times it would be like flukes. I can’t give one example, it’s the entire thing. At first it was just, “Oh, that’s just a fluke,” or “Oh, it was just luck.” Once that happens hundreds or thousands of time, you start to think maybe there really is something to this idea.

You think you’re pushing towards your dream but what if your dream is pulling you to it? I just have to go where I’m being pulled. It can be a bit scary, I feel like I’m in the dark sometimes, but I have faith at this point. There are times and moments of doubt but I can’t deny where it’s taking me. It’s not me, it’s the total culmination of people around me, supporting me, like yourself, maybe that’s what’s pulling me.

Sometimes I think I should be pushing and I push and nothing That’s the craziest thing, nothing happens and I feel really pathetic and I can’t make one thing I wanted to do happen and then, without wanting to do anything, a bunch of other stuff will happen and it’ll be much better than what I wanted to happen.

It’s very bizarre, to me at least, maybe this is a shared experience, but it’s very humbling to accept this, that there are party gods and there is a plan for me. I’m not going to battle with them. It’s a losing battle.

You have a very loyal following on Twitter, what drew you to that platform?


I always liked the computer. I remember my first computer and when one of my friends first got the Internet and that was really mind blowing to us. I was really excited when you could start recording with a computer. Once we started our website, I felt I could say things, I can say these things and the writing on this thing, was like always, a way to motivate myself and feel good. That’s why I wanted to dedicate my life to partying, I just wanted not to feel so depressed.

Even the first version of the site we launched in 2002, we had a questions and answers section. People would write me questions about life, which I was amazed people would turn to me, and I would answer and I would answer in the most capable way I could.

That was before social media, we were just doing it because we felt we could party with people around the world.

The computer, the feeling that I can be partying with people around the world, it counted! It still counts as some kind of communication. It’s the same with Facebook and Twitter. I see where people don’t aesthetically like it but it’s what I’m about. You’re not alone. You’re in this with a team of people. We’re trying to cheer each other up and party as much as possible before we die.