I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

Lars Ulrich

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Lars Ulrich

morning fun boys

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

Lars Ulrich

heart integrity mean

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

Lars Ulrich

messages answers looks

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

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concerts queens mom

Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

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growing sometimes way

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

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metallica band trying

I really like LIMP BIZKIT. I mean, I've said it for years - I don't know if anyone actually hears it - but I think LIMP BIZKIT are an awesome band. In terms of the rap-rock bands, or ANY bands out there, I think they really are truly among the best.

Lars Ulrich

rap mean thinking

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

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metallica shortcomings i-can

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

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metallica unhappy trying

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

Lars Ulrich

crazy running thinking

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

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stuff fun

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

Lars Ulrich

greed artist running

What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.

Lars Ulrich

cities play years

I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.

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knows people

Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

Lars Ulrich

rocks love-is years

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Lars Ulrich

rolling band stones

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Lars Ulrich

song trying people

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

Lars Ulrich

metallica band

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

Lars Ulrich

honest extensions natural

Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.

Lars Ulrich

ability musician