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.

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.

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.

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.

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

America ain’t three fifths bad.

Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Art has no end but its own perfection.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.