We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.

I choose to live, not just exist.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Live win, dare fail.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply.

I knew I couldn’t let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

Delay of justice is injustice.

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.