Greg Dwyer and Bill Obenauf (a.k.a. Bill Michaels), who host a morning show on 97X in Davenport, Iowa, recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. Mustaine went on to explain why he’s difficult to wrk with:
Mustaine: “I think that when you look at some people, that their careers have been out in the open, and I’ve been really honest about everything that I do and how I’ve worked… To lie about it just makes people loathe you. And part of the reason that I’m difficult, I think, to work with is because I demand the best that I can possibly do myself, and I think that when you do that, you kind of sometimes tend to expect that from others. I know that a lot of times, when I say ‘no’ to people, they take it wrong. It’s not like I’m saying, ‘No. Hey, hit the road.’ It’s something more along the lines [of], ‘No, I think maybe there’s something better,’ or, ‘Maybe not right now’ — that kind of thing. But a lot of times, people, they don’t like rejection. I certainly don’t like rejection. I don’t know; maybe that’s something that’s cool with you guys, but it’s not for me. So when I say ‘no’ a lot of times, people get mad. I remember the first time I had asked a girl to dance in high school and she said ‘no’ to me, I thought, ‘I’m gonna tell everybody what you are.’“