I like a women whos got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, thats fine. – James Hetfield
We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that were doing it for ourselves. Were doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it. – James Hetfield
I like playing music because its a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I cant feed my family with satisfaction. – James Hetfield
If I hadnt of had music in my life, its quite possible Id be dead and Id much rather be alive. – James Hetfield
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man