I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.