Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.