James Hetfield

"I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction."

"Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that."

"All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm …"

"Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone."

"If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive."

"It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online."

"Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess." James Hetfield - Playboy April 2001."

"Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over."