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

Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

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

I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

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

What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.

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.