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

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.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

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

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

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

People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica

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

God is my joy.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.