Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.

I choose to live, not just exist.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Live win, dare fail.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

The void can only be filled with love.

Those who hurt, Screw up, if you are lucky Demons will let you watch.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.