It interests me and it takes work,' says Hetfield aspiring to 'paint a picture in just one sentence' like Tom Waits.

We tend to think of artists like Bruce Springsteen as being the ultimate arbiters of their own artistic expression, deciding what needs to be said and when. But even a star as iconic as The Boss needs ...

Most folks know that Paul McCartney wrote "Yesterday" after the melody came to him in a dream. The dream that Peter Gabriel translated to create "Red Rain" sounds much more like a nightmare, at least ...