Dave Mustaine

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. ”

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. ”

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. ”

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong. ”

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

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

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica. ”

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not. ”

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ”

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. ”