The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.

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

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

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.

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.