I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

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.

What you persistently think becomes your reality.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

Shakespeare, ” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4, 000 meters.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.