These are some random quotes/statements I found (mainly from old magazines). More than likely you've not read these before. If you have I think you'll still like 'em. I'll add more if I find any worth adding.
Enjoy!!!

This is from: Hit Parader's Heavy Metal Awards (cdc 00642) Spring 1986.
Article name: Loudest band of '85 (Metallica came in 4th. Iron Maiden was 1st)
Lars Ulrich or maybe perhaps James Hetfield

"We're not trying to be sublte," guitarist/vocalist Lars Ulrich (that's how it is written; webm) said. "We're not interested in radio airplay or getting on MTV. We play with power, and that's the only type of music we have any interest in. You'll never see Metallica playing ballads."

Hit Parader's Heavy Metal (cdc 00545) October 1986.
Article name: Metallica Masters of Metal
Lars Ulrich

"We've always done things our own way. Sure, we've heard that a group that looked and sounded like ours would never be anything but a cult band. That made us laugh because we didn't care. We never considered how popular we could become or how many albums we could sell. We made the music we liked, and if other people could get into it, then that was great. If they couldn't, we understood. But it is really nice that the new album ("Master of Puppets"; webm) has done so well. The record company was saying, 'Hey, give us short songs this time.' We didn't, and the people liked it--that's got to say something."

Metal Superstars (cdc 00092) circa 1992
Article name: Metallica in their own words
James Hetfield

"I like playing different cities every night. The worst part of touring for me is playing two nights in the same city. The crew loves it since they don't have to work, but I like moving around. The second night you play in the same arena just doesn't feel right. To be honest, there isn't a whole lot we can drastically change from night to night. I wouldn't see us two nights in a row. That's only for people who are really, really bored."

Metal Superstars (cdc 00092) circa 1992
Article name: Metallica in their own words
James Hetfield

"I'm really tired of all the talk about metal being connected to teen suicide. If kids are messed up, maybe the parents should look in the mirror to see who's at fault. Parents have to take more responsibility for their kids' lives. If they don't they really shouldn't look to heavy metal as the cause of their problems."

Metal Superstars (cdc 00092) circa 1992
Article name: Metallica in their own words
Jason Newsted

"I hit it off with the guys in the band right away when I first met them because I could drink them under the table and still maintain my sanity--or insanity as the case may be."

M.M. (48439) Feburary 1992
Article name: Metallitalk
Kirk Hammett

"If we hadn't changed and we'd put out three of four Kill 'Em All's, we probably wouldn't be together. We'd be bored of each other bored with the music, bored of the whole thing. So I think change is an integral part of this band."

M.M. Make way for Metallica February '92.
Article name: Metallitalk
Lars Ulrich

"What we never took into account was that video's just like anything else, it's something that you can have the same creative control over, the way you do with records, and just because all these other f***in' bands make videos that made me want to throw my television out of my hotel room didn't mean that Metallica couldn't go in and do something on our own terms the way we do everything on our terms."

Grammy awards February 25, 1992
Nomination: "Best Heavy Metal Performance"
Lars Ulrich

"I think the first thing we've gotta do is thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year. Also, we've gotta thank the Academy for giving Jethro Tull the award in 1989: read between the lines, know what I mean?"
Then after a few well deserved thank-yous to Bob Rock and so forth, "I wanna thank all the radio stations and MTV, without whom all of this was possible anyway! Just kidding."

Rolling Stone 799 (RS799) November 12, 1998.
Article name: Voices From the Culture. The Clinton Conversation.
Kirk Hammett

"I'm not going to condone behavior like that. Basically, it's wrong. But impeachment is fucking serious. The last president threatened with impeachment did something really bad: bugging the Democrats' campaign offices. The only thing Clinton is guilty of is committing adultry. He should be punished. But, goddamn, he should not be drawn and quartered in public like he is. Let the punishment fit the crime. Clinton is really good at telling everybody what they want to hear without really giving anything. I did vote for Clinton. I don't follow politics as much as other people do, but what he's done for the economy and what he's done for the arts really outshines what he's done with his zipper."

Guitar World December 1998
Article name: Cover Story
James Hetfield

"We went out drinking one night recently, and on our long ride to this club, we listened to a radio station playing Metallica from A to Z. And it was really wild to hear some of our old material again. When they'd play something like "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" from ...And Justice For All we'd sit there and go, 'Whoa? Where in the F**k did that whole middle section come from? What were we thinking?' There was a lot of urgency to that material, but a lot of it was just wank...just us showing off. But that's where we were at that time."