I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.

If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

My musical tastes change every week.

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