Dave Mustaine Chats to ilikemusic.com

It was hard. I started to get really frustrated, you can see from the pictures around that period, I'm not a happy kid. That's why I the MD45 project after Euthanasia, I didn't want to be part of this 'write this hit record on tap'. I didn't know I could do it the first time. It was a matter of timing. So when they said do it again, I didn't think that I can.

ILM: You've written so many songs, how do you know what's going to be right for the album and where do you like to write?

Dave: Now if I like it it's in, but when I first started writing songs, I didn't have a lot of fans. I had people interested in what I was doing because I smoked pot and they knew after I'd finished we'd be getting loaded. Then there were people who were interested when I got into Metallica, and others who, as soon as I left Metallica, they wanted to know what was going on. So when I started writing music for myself, that's when I enjoyed it the most. This new record was one of the first records I've written in a long time, just for myself, without other band members telling me to listen to their song or words or music, or we've got to write a song for TV or radio. That sux. It's like telling a guy to get an erection on command, I mean some guys can do that, but not many.
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