To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

The past is where its supposed to be.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.