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

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.

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

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.

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.