“I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.”

American musician, Metallica bassist

Robert Trujillo is an American musician, best known as the bassist of Metallica. Born Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz, he came to prominence in the late 1980s and 1990s and has been with Metallica since 2003. Before joining Metallica, he played bass for Suicidal Tendencies from 1989 to 1995 and worked with Mike Muir in Infectious Grooves. He later performed with Ozzy Osbourne, Jerry Cantrell, and Black Label Society. Trujillo is Metallica’s longest-serving bassist, and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2009.