I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

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.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Prayer is the passport to peace.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.