Kirk's Quotes

"My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head"

"I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do."

"I was born in San Francisco, at St. Lukes Hospital, at three o'clock in the morning, my mom had green bedsheets."

"The audiences have been tremendous, phenominal. I have nothing to complain about."

"As a kid I was introverted. I read a lot. I had a fascination with comic books, monster magazines, and monster movies, which carries on through now. I'm still heavily into monster movies and monster toys."

"We're on commercial flights and sometimes the stewardess'll call you by your first name. It kind of throws you a bit."

"My brother got me into music. He started playing guitar around 1968. He was a hippie. He exposed me to the Haight-Ashbury scene, so I was exposed to Hendrix, Zepplin, and Santana right when that stuff was released, '67, '68, '69."

"On Monsters Of Rock we had nothing to do, so we went to a lot of night clubs."

"I've always listened to music. It was always there in my household, and I've always been into it. I never actually got into it because it was there since I can remember."

"I'm particularly fond of 'One'."

"Tom Hunting, the drummer, and I started Exodus in 1981. That was my first band. We played a lot of clubs, and we did one demo tape, which is pretty collectible on the underground circuit. We actually played with Metallica when Dave Mustaine was in the band."

"We (Spastic Children) do it just to be really shitty on stage, we're really awful because we're all on an instrument we don't usually play. We play stuff like 'Pus is really great' and 'I like farts'. Metallica fans expect us to play Metallica songs, but we never do. The last time we played, we came out in our underwear. We were going to play naked but the club owner threatened to call the police."

"My affiliation with Metallica began the time Exodus played with Metallica. I talked to Lars and James briefly, in passing. They were planning to go to New York to hook up with Johnny Z and do their first album. They had been having problems with Dave, and they were looking for someone who was more a melodic, controlled player. Our soundman played them some some tapes of Exodus live, and they liked what they heard. They gave me a call in april 1983 and asked me if i wanted to join Metallica. I thought it was an 'April Fools' joke, but I said 'sure' anyway."