Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

Love one another (His last words)

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.

Our kids are in a little band, and they like to play video games, and my wife and I do our best to live a low-key, non-Hollywood kind of life.

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

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

Maybe love can kill better than hate.