Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

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.

Here am I send me.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.

Is there anybody alive out there?

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane