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

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.

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

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

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

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 within yourself for the answers.

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

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

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.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

I'm completely obsessed with Sunday roast dinners. I think that it's the best thing to ever happen to life!

Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

I don't want to be somebody else.

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

Liars need to have good memories.

For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.

Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.