Lars Ulrich Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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.

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

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

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

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

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

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

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.

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

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

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it`s always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.

I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.

I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.