title says it all...i was suddenly thinking about it and i realised that i have never found out when he said it...
I think it was in 2010 sometime, I think it was right around the time ATS was released and getting press.
This image was circling through internet on famous meme sites and pages on facebook, I ask the same question. Been doing a little research about it without any success /:
I don't even think it's his qoute, kind of like how "when the rich wage war it's the poor who die" people think that's Mike who said it first sometimes and it isn't. I'm pretty sure he used the saying around ats, in an interview
I believe that he said it in response to one of those "what kind of advice would you give to aspiring musicians?" questions but I don't remember which publication it was for
I've always assumed it's one of the dozens upon dozens of "quotes" that have been misattributed to him/LP over the years.