I do have a feeling about bands that cannot get it on, ... When I was a kid, I had guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Michael Schenker, Angus Young. Hot players. You can't name one guitar player in any of the new bands that is a virtuoso.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.