Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

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.

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.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.