The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

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

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

Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.