Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
I thought I'd do something nice for the band. . . I'll hang myself.
Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.
I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.
I don't play video games.
The past is where its supposed to be.
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.