Zakk Wylde: The Nervous Breakdown Interview

You make a good point with Guns N’ Roses. They have all the reasons in the world to get back together, but they don’t. As someone who’s been around as long as you have, what’s the one thing a musician can do to thoroughly and brilliantly fuck up their career?

Lemme put it this way: it’s already enough of an ass-plowing to begin with. It’s like I said in the book, if you’re in Alice in Chains–if you’re Jerry Cantrell–and that’s the music you love and that’s what naturally comes out of you and you love playing that stuff, that’s what you gotta do. It’s a long road whether you’re in Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Boston or any band. The whole thing is that you might as well be playing what you dig playing, rather than being in some band where you’re like, “Dude, I can’t stand playing this.” Then what are you doing it for, man? You know what I mean? Nothing for nothing, but whether me and you work in a McDonald’s, there are still gonna be jerk-offs that are there that we can’t stand, you know what I mean? You might as well pick something you really love doing.

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