, and lead vocalist
for the American heavy metal
band Metallica
. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering a classified advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich
in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler
, searching for band members. Since then, Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released nine studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays, 24 singles.
"I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction."
"Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone."
"If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive."
"Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that."
All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.