Randy Blythe

Towards the end of my drinking, I was looking for some sort of answer other than the one that is obviously staring me in the face, like, hey, you're an alcoholic, you got to stop.

I went to go see a shrink.

His name is Ted.

I wish I could remember his last name because I think I still owe him money from our last session.

But I was going to him and I was still drinking at the time and I was complaining a lot about, you know, problems I was having in my relationship, my work.

And, you know, all of this is stemming from my alcoholism.

But he's he's being cool and he's trying to kind of deal with me without that.

directly saying, you got to get sober, dude.

You know, because I was kind of beating around the bush with him.

He's like, I want to, do you know who Epictetus is?

And I'm like, no.

He's like, he is a philosopher of the school of Stoicism.

You know, he was a slave and he wrote this book called the Intradian or the manual.

And I forget which translation he had.

So I bought it.

And I was reading it and it was making sense.

But because I was still deep within the throes of my alcoholism, I could not internalize and really apply the lessons there.

But the seed was planted, you know.

And then a few years later, when I got sober, I picked Epictetus back up, you know.

So that was probably...