I dont know ANY secrets about playing guitar, and theres no fairy dust — Ralph Santolla

"We kept giving [him] chances because we’re nice guys. Well, not so much me. I was the one totally against him coming back and forth like that. It was more like [drummer] Steve [Asheim] and [guitarist] Jack [Owen], who are friends with the guy, wanted to keep giving him chances. I’m not the type of guy to give chances. I just kind of went along with it reluctantly. Finally, there was an issue in Europe on one of the tours and I chucked his ass off the bus and called it a day. [...] Man, without going into great detail, let’s just say the guy’s a trainwreck and leave it at that."

"My heart is broken, but I know he loved me unconditionally and will always be with me [...] It is the same with all of us, he will be with you everyone, everyday and his love will surround us now and forever."

"Ralphie was a character. He was a crazy person. He always liked to party. He maybe partied too hard. Thats a [price] you sometimes have to pay when you party too hard in life. I was very sad last year that he wasnt in a band anymore; he wasnt in an active band anymore because he was such a great player. His background was always more the 70s stuff like and . He loved all of those 70s players, but he brought this stuff into death metal. He was one of the first really skilled lead players in death metal back in the day. He was always funny, also, and had a very black humor. Every time we played in Florida, he came to the shows and brought his great humor and great entertainment to the shows. It was very sad for me to see; I think the fact the tragic ending had to do with everything involved in his music business. When you kind of dont play in a band anymore and youre used to it and you stay home all the time, and you see all your friends touring and you dont, and youre such a passionate musician as him. That was really something that killed him also in a mental way. I was talking to him often and he was always hopeful for a new project. It never really happened. Its very sad because Ralphie was one of a kind. He was one of the guys you met, you meet him once, youll never forget him."