Jason's Quotes
"It's cool having the control, the last word. It's very comfortable. We've always watched ourselves as far as
keeping in shape. We base our whole day around the shows 'cause we want it to be as good as possible."
"We do what ever we want, more than we could before, and we get away with it. It's really cool."
"As far as players, what I really like is Geezer Butler, Chris Squire, Lemmy and Geddy Lee."
"It was tough to get used to playing two hours. At Monsters, we only did an hour. When you do two hours
you can't be slamming the whole time. You've got to pace yourself so you can be strong the whoel time."
"Kiss is the reason that I ever got a bass in the beginning. I wanted a bass because I liked Gene Simmons.
So I had my dad buy me one for my fourteenth birthday."
"I eat two hours before we go on and practice for half an hour. I've been walking out in the crowds. I put on an incognito disguise and check out the scene. It's cool to do that, soak up the vibe of the kids. A few recognized me so I gave them passes."
"I was a farm boy. My father and I raised Arabian Stallions on our farm. I rode all the time, and I did circuit horse shows, all that sort of crap."
"I listen to weird stuff that no one else likes. Old Motown or Elvis or Temptations. Louis Armstrong,
Tom Waits. I still listen to alot of heavy stuff. Violence and Sacred Reich. Black Sabbath and Zepplin are still the best. We play them in the dressing room. Blue Oyster Cult. We listen to Red Hot Chilis too."
"We don't have to do any shit we don't want to. If it doesn't come out good, forget it. It has to be unique,
something that really reprsents us."
"Filling Cliff's shoes really had me worried. The I realized I had to live with it. I just have to crush everyone and do my own thing."
"One thing we want to do that's fairly close in range is play the Soviet Union."
"Metallica presented me with a gold album of Master of Puppets. I didn't expect one. That's when it really hit me that I was part of Metallica."
