One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.