I don’t like to be pigeonholded, and i really like that people never really know what’s going on with Metallica.”

As long as it says Metallica on the record it’s Metallica.

The new album will come out some time in november – Knock On Wood.

Over the course of our career we’ve been fortunate enough to share the stage with a select few of the bands we grew up on, admired and respected including AC/DC, Deep Purple, Guns N’ Roses...

What’s the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don’t listen to me, don’t listen to James, don’t listen to anybody, look...

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

I tink if people sit down and consider the amount of dedication we put into what we do, we are at the paramount of that scale.

Right now we’re stading at a massive point of rebirth.

Metallica’s the only band i’ve ever been in. I’m not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I’m going to put an ad in the paper saying, ‘stupid drummer looking for stupid people...

One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.

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...

We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn’t play… We were just like ‘Let’s get together and play some cover songs, drink some vodka…’ a year and a half later we were touring...

Its just us doing our thing.

The new stuff is much more organic, more old school. It certainly doesn’t feel like ‘St. Anger’ Part Two. When we were rehearsing for our South African shows and started playing the ‘St. Anger’ stuff,...

…Metallica mythos…distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself…

We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album.

We are here to celebrate Black Sabbath tonight a decade or so late, but that’s another conversation, another argument.

Our music comes from our hearts – And it always has.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can’t deal with the growth.

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

I’m just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Let’s see, I think the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we gotta tank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year. Ha, Ha!!

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and just a natural and instinctual extension of your self, then there you go.

That’s what we’re all about; taking advantage of people.

Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that real simple. Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whatever the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the...

I guess these things just went down in value, uh, if we can win one I guess anyone can, uh.

“Life is like a permanent limp dick, with an occassional blow job” [When told by Phil that life is like a permanent cloudy day, with an occassional sunshine]

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