I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith.

I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

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

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.

Life is the soul's nursery.