DAVE MUSTAINE: 'A Couple Of Years From Now, I'm Not Going To Matter To Young People'

August 24, 2010

Jessica VanZalen of The Arizona Republic recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Arizona Republic: How does it feel to be a New York Times best-selling author? Did you ever think you would accomplish something like that?

Mustaine: No, and I imagine my teachers didn't think I could either. It would be great for me to go back to high school and wag my finger at some of these guys and show them this new title. I did a lot of things that have made me proud in my career, but this is something totally different. For me, this has been just the neatest thing in the world. I think the irony of someone saying "reading" and "MEGADETH" in the same sentence is really fun. It's one that you never thought you'd hear a parent say, "Stop reading that MEGADETH book!"

The Arizona Republic: Why did you want to do this now?

Mustaine: I'm almost 50, and a couple of years from now, I'm not going to matter to young people and I want to make sure I can share all of these personal victories I've had with these kids before what I say or do doesn't matter anymore. Regardless if it's me or not, it's a human trial and it's personal victory and I love sharing that with people. I'm just like the next guy. I get happy, I get sad, I laugh, I cry, I get pissed. In my business, the problem was that because of all of the drug and alcohol use and mismanagement, you make a lot of bad decisions and bad decisions are followed by bad people, and you start to really plummet in your mind, and mood, and attitude.

The Arizona Republic: Were you hoping this would clear up some misconceptions about you?

Mustaine: The feuds [between MEGADETH, METALLICA and SLAYER]. That was one thing that's been over for so long. We've been saying, "There is no feud," "There is no feud." And then someone would say something antagonistic or provocative in the press and would (bring) one of us into it, and it would bring it up again. It wasn't any of us because we all love each other. And it's a testimony that we've done these ["Big Four"] shows together [in Europe] and we're doing this fantastic live DVD [from the Sofia, Bulgaria Sonisphere festival] and the fact that we got up onstage to jam together.

Read the entire interview from The Arizona Republic.

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