I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

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.

Sometimes it takes a meltdown to cool down.

I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction

The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

I guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing.