I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

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.

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.

Let us be appreciative and grateful for the abundance, beauty, experience, and bliss of life.

When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

We having nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and maybe getting mugged by someone wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?