All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

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'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 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 am light and stardust in his hands.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.