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.

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

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

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself

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 don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!