We've turned our back on that sort of writing. Bands with great first albums always release a second album about touring, and that's just embarrassing.


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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
DAVE GROHL
In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can d...
DAVE GROHL
I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everyt...
DAVE GROHL
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
DAVE GROHL
I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
DAVE GROHL
When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
DAVE GROHL
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
DAVE GROHL
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done,...
DAVE GROHL
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ...
DAVE GROHL
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
DAVE GROHL
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wal...
DAVE GROHL
My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They'v...
DAVE RAMSEY
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
DAVE BARRY
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...
DAVE BARRY
I care about what the fans feel.
DAVE MUSTAINE
One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
DAVE MUSTAINE
I am interested in politics.
DAVE MUSTAINE
I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
DAVE MUSTAINE
Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.
DAVE MUSTAINE
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ...
DAVE MUSTAINE
I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.
DAVE MUSTAINE
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu...
DAVE MUSTAINE
Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to th...
DAVE MUSTAINE
Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
DAVE MUSTAINE
No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.
DAVE MUSTAINE
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
DAVE MUSTAINE
Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
DAVE MUSTAINE
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no...
DAVE MUSTAINE
Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long...
DAVE MUSTAINE
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your...
DAVE MUSTAINE
I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I ...
DAVE MUSTAINE
My guitar was a loyal person to me.
DAVE MUSTAINE
When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something&...
DAVE MUSTAINE
I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
DAVE MUSTAINE
If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
DAVE MUSTAINE
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
DAVE MUSTAINE
If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and no...
DAVE MUSTAINE
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: p...
DAVE MUSTAINE
What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.
DAVE MUSTAINE
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
DAVE MUSTAINE