Greetings from NY Friedman-Sama, I don't want to waste too much of your time, so I'll keep this brief. Millions of people want to make it in the music industry. You read all these stories about bands living out of vans and living off of canned food. Its obvious that you need to make sacrifices to try to make it. I don't know if you have to go through measures that drastic, but I just wanted to ask something. When you first started off to try to make a career in music, did you know you would get so big and famous? Or did you go into it thinking that there was a slim chance you would make it, but you'd be happy with just playing at a small, local level for the rest of your life. Did you just go with the flow, and it all of a sudden you reached stardom? You only live once, and you get one chance to make a sacrifice. Is ambition truly enough to make it Marty-sama? Arigato gozaimasu P.S. I love your music Mr. Friedman! Not just Megadeth's, I love YOUR music ^_^. Please sleep well knowing that you inspire so many budding guitarist.

Good Q. When I started, all I knew was that I loved to play and if I just continued rather than quit, I would only get better at whatever it was I did rather than worse. It`s pretty much exactly the same now. I believe that the majority of artists who are "big and famous" as you say are doing exactly the same thing they would be doing whether they sold zero or millions. They would be doing it anyway, because that is what they do. BTW " living out of vans and living off of canned food" is one of the smaller sacrifices...depending on how you look at it, those times can be pretty damn fun. Whatever you choose to do, all the best.