Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.
There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.
For as long as I'm able to write songs and sing them, it's just about making them ones I feel proud to sing again and again.
I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.
I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.
I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.
What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.
As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.
They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
