My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up?