I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

The past is where its supposed to be.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take a nap.

There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.

The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.