If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

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.

Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It's limited to love and bond to one another in one's heart

...the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

What about Sarah Palin. Donald Trump had suggested she would be in his cabinet if he won. Is she going to be in?

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.