I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

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

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.

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

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.

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