I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine.
I’d much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.
I’m always feeling like I don’t belong, no matter where I am. So I’m just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I’m doing some French TV show with the president’s wife.
There was so much good and different music back then and you’d just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.
My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.
Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I’m not picky. I never think, ‘Oh, this neck isn’t made of ebony,’ or, ‘These strings don’t feel correct.’ It doesn’t matter too much.
My vocals are bad, I can’t sing, hey man, I wouldn’t ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.
It’s a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.
Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
I was pretty quiet as a child.
No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.
A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you’re jamming by yourself, but don’t hold up in a band situation. The sound isn’t dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.
I’ve discovered that sheer quantity doesn’t necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
We’d record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn’t play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn’t allow.
The band? No way! There ain’t no band. The band is not ‘the band’ right now. It’s just three guys.
Metallica is the world to me – it always has been, and that’s not going to change. I’m married to Metallica.
There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
As far as artists and musicians, they don’t retire. They might tour less.