Robert Trujillo grew up in Santa Monica, California, where his passion for music set the stage for an extraordinary career.

Today, he's known as the bassist for Metallica, one of the biggest names in rock and roll.

Tonight, he shares his brief but spectacular take on manifesting a dream.

All of us young musicians in junior high and high school

aspired to be rich and famous.

And, you know, we looked up to our superheroes,

which were Ozzy Osbourne.

I remember Rush was a huge influence of mine, Van Halen.

Led Zeppelin, everybody wanted to be Led Zeppelin.

So I wrote it in my yearbook.

It was kind of a joke, but here I am.

Not rich.

I don't know how famous I am, but I'm having a good time.

I think that's what's important. When I grew up, I had a lot of friends that were hockey players.

Believe it or not, they weren't just skaters and surfers growing up in Southern California.

You think that's what it's all about.

And I used to go ice skating over at the culvert ice rink.

And that's where I kind of discovered music.

And you know, you're skating and you're trying to find a date, you know, that's what's going on. You're in junior high. And I'm hearing eruption for the first time, that guitar solo, Eddie Van Halen. And I was like, wow, what is this? I pretty much knew I wanted to play music the moment I heard it.

I played in backyard parties and we played covers.

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne were the main ingredient to what we did and what we covered.

I ended up being in Ozzie's band, and that happened because Ozzy sang on a song for a band I was in called

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