All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

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

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.

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.

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.