Hammett: I quit drinking - now I can play anything…

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Hammett, for his part, admitted that he has had "a lot of therapy." Pressed about what he has had to see a therapist for, the guitarist said: "Dealing with my own interpretations of my own fucking brain. I need a lot of therapy. I'm broken. My theory is that Lars, James, Rob and I were broken very, very early in life, and that's why we became musicians, and the kind of musicians we are. A lot of anger and frustration, and needing a way to express and channel that. And I like to think that's why we found each other, that's why we were initially attracted, because we all had that in our personalities, and more importantly, when we pick up our instruments, the stuff that comes up is all congruent because we all come from the same sort of brokenness."

He continued: "I like using 'broken' as a term. It's James's term; if I had to use a different [one] I'd say we all came from really bad upbringings, we all had our challenges and had things happen to us that impacted us negatively in our life. But I also think that, fuck, man, that was done for a reason. It was done so we can do what we do and do it in a way that might help anyone else that's going through some fucking shit. I know to no small extent that we've all gone to music as a therapeutic device. I think that's why we're so wrapped up in all this. It's so intertwined in our make-up."