Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

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.

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.

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 want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

True freedom exists beyond the bounds of our faculty of reason because rational beings can only reason practical freedoms even if first conceived in theory or as an idea.

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.