The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again.

We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.