If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

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.

Brother will kill brother, Spilling blood across the land...

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.

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

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

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.