In Which Kirk Hammett, Lead Guitarist for Metallica, Feels the Burden of Existing Without Limits

“I think most people in rock bands have arrested development. Society doesn’t demand people in rock bands do certain things. You’re able to start drinking whenever you want, and you can play shows drunk, and you can get offstage and continue to be drunk, and people love it. They toast their glasses to an artist who’s drunk and breaking things and screaming and wrestling in the middle of a restaurant. Things like that happened to us, and people cheered.”

From “Band on the Couch,” by Chuck Klosterman, The New York Times Magazine, June 20, 2004