A.E. Kirk Quotes

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.

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.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is #‎ unstoppable .

What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

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've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.

Life is like a B-picture script.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

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

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

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

Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.