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Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.

No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

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 I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

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.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

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.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

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.

If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

Clearly see you can't see Clear

Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.

I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.