If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.

I choose to live, not just exist.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Live win, dare fail.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

Love can never be required or forced

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.