Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit.