This Sunday, November 30, METALLICA fans will get a closer look at the band’s charitable efforts when CBS Sunday Morning airs a special feature on the group’s All Within My Hands Foundation. The segment will broadcast at 9 a.m. on CBS and stream on Paramount+, offering a deeper look into the foundation’s mission and the passion driving it.
Ahead of the feature, frontman James Hetfield reflected on what continues to fuel him onstage more than 40 years into METALLICA’s career. Speaking with CBS Sunday Morning Hetfield shared how the live connection with fans keeps everything fresh.
“It’s so easy. It is so easy. Just looking into one set of eyes — that’s all it takes for me,” he said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “I will hook up with one person’s eyes and I’ll just see them change. I’ll see the passion in them, and I’m full — my heart fills right up and I’m ready to just keep going, kicking a*s.
For Hetfield, that spark is tied directly to gratitude — gratitude for his position, for the fans, and for the life music has given him.
“I am so blessed,” he continued. “I have the best seat in the house. I got the best job in the world, if you even wanna call it a job. I found my passion early on in life; I’m super grateful for that. I had parents that were supportive around that. And I struggled. I struggled hard to get what I thought was what I needed, which was be in a band and make music. Struggle is part of it, and with this foundation [All Within My Hands], hopefully we’re a little bit of a helping hand getting from that, ‘I can’t get out of this struggle. I just can’t,’ to the, ‘I can, but I gotta work hard and I’m gonna be able to get what I want.’
Hetfield emphasized that the connection he sees at shows — now often spanning entire families — remains one of the most powerful parts of his experience.
“So, yeah, I have the best job in the world,” James said again. “I get to see three generations of people hugging each other. Oh, God, the last thing I would’ve wanted to do is go to a gig with my dad, or my grandpa even. But I see that happening out there. And little kids down in the front, old people down the front, people in wheelchairs down the front — a mixed match of backgrounds and stories of people.
“We gather a lot of misfits around this planet, and we make a family out of it. And we create some energy that helps us get through life.”
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