The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.