When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

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.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

I have always been very calm on the outside.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.