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.

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

We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.