If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

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.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...

The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.