I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

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.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

One must make one's own mistakes

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.

I drive these brothers crazy I do it on the daily They treat me really nicely They buy me all these ices

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.