I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

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.

Visionary is a seed of Creativity

An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Trust not too much to appearances