For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

To help someone, don’t criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him.

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Why do I have to pay a reconnect fee when you all made the mistake?

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.