'Never. You don't put a bumper sticker on a Mercedes-Benz. I've always been the antithesis of what's popular. If you can go into a library and the girl in there has her nipples pierced and chained together with a bunch of shrunken heads hanging off her eyebrow, then it's gotten pretty boring. If I go into the hospital and the doctor has a face tattoo and a goatee I'm out of there. I have nothing against people who have tattoos. I think body art is beautiful. In fact, a full page of the Megadeth website is devoted to people with body art. But for me, I'm 42 so if I had a tattoo, a couple of decades from now it's going to be a purple lump on my ass.' -interview on why he doesn't have any tattoos

'I reached the point in the end where I didn't want to see another fader, and the only knob I wanted to play with was my own.' -on remastering Rust in Peace

'It's a very treacherous city. A lot of people are afraid of it and a lot of people enjoy it. The ones who are afraid of it can't cope and the ones who enjoy i…

'God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.' -Interview with 'Masters of Metal and Hard Rock' magazine

Posh does not equal style. Really, God, that's just ridiculous. Posh equals tradition. Anyone can achieve style. It doesn't matter who you are or where you're …

Our bios are sort of similar, but guys in rock bands all wear T-shirts and jeans and nobody ever says they're all the same.

'In Japan, everyone strives to be the same. (...) What I like most about America is that everyone is an individual.'