The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a better place."

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.