I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?
All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.
I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.