We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.
I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.
In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.
They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.
When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.
Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.
I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.
I used to run the band hockey pool - regular season and playoffs. I would write weekly reports, which were meant to demoralize and diffuse enjoyment for others.
Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.
Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.
One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.
People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica
I don't think you'd say we'd be rivals because we've got a completely different line-up to The Beatles.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
