Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.
I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.
I love to get people to sing and play together.
I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.
I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
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.
