Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.
When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.
One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.
