Metallica Is Like The Phoenix Rising From

I Don't Think Success Has Changed Us As People At All. We Are The Same Lunatics That We Were When This Band First Got Going. We Never See Ourselves As Being On A Higher Level Than Our Fans.

After Months Of Playing Air Guitar To 'free Bird', What Really Got Me Into Guitar Was Watching A Documentary About Jimi Hendrix And Picking Up The Woodstock Soundtrack. Listening To His Version Of 'star Spangled Banner' And 'purple Haze.' My Brother Played Acoustic Guitar And, Idolising Him, I Thought, 'i'm Going To Get A Guitar.'

The Same Sensations That You Get In Heavy Metal Are In Horror Movies. Heavy Metal Sounds Evil And Horror Movies Are Evil, Ha Ha!

Basically I Just Had To Say, 'screw Everyone Around Me - From Now On I'm Just Gonna Play What I Think Is Important To Me And Our Music.' So I Gave The Big Finger To All The Current Trends In Technical Wizardry, And Just Went Off And Did What I Felt Was Best For The Songs.

I Went Through A Whole Blues Period In The Nineties, And That Had Some Influence On 'load' And 'reload.'