I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.