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 play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.

In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.