Jared Leto: “I’m not your role model”

In this week’s Kerrang! magazine, 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto gives his most revealing interview ever.

Former K! editor Paul Brannigan joined the frontman in Paris to talk about his band’s new album, This Is War, and delve into the dark recesses of Leto’s psyche.

For the first time ever, Leto talks frankly about the band’s battle with their record company, his time on the streets as a child and how he “looked down into the abyss, into Dante’s Inferno, and gazed upon the river Hades” and came back from the brink. But just don’t ask him, or his band, to be your role model…

“If someone finds that in an example of ours then great, but I don’t give advice,” he told K!. “Everyone has to learn their own lessons. But there’s great value in seeing how someone else makes something work.

“I’ve had guidance from other people that I’m very grateful for,” he added. “This record suggests that there’s only one choice, and that is to fight for and follow your dreams. This is a very short and delicate life and there’s no choice but to take full advantage of it.”

For the full interview, be sure to pick up a copy of this week’s Kerrang! magazine, on sale tomorrow.


Posted by Dan at 09:32AM | November 24, 2009

This issue sounds awesome! Gonna get it tomorrow on my way to school.

xoxo

Posted by sarah | November 24, 2009 10:26 AM | Reply to this

I can't wait. I think it's great that they're not preaching.

Posted by tamara | November 24, 2009 1:37 PM | Reply to this

He has made some very good points through the album. If you've been through shit with a label, as i have before, its good to always come out fighting. Kings and queens is fantastic.

Posted by Hands Shaped Like Hearts | November 24, 2009 1:54 PM | Reply to this

i am so getting that issue tomorrow.... will be reading it for a while, cant wait to see them at wembely next year :) x

Posted by Maddy 30.s.t.m lover :) | November 24, 2009 5:42 PM | Reply to this

i am so getting that issue tomorrow.... will be reading it for a while, cant wait to see them at wembely next year :) x

Posted by Maddy 30.s.t.m lover :) | November 24, 2009 5:42 PM | Reply to this

omg same, i get it every morning from sainsburys on my way to school thats wierd x

Posted by sarah | November 24, 2009 5:56 PM | Reply to this

i'll definately be getting that! :-D

Posted by Amal | November 24, 2009 6:25 PM | Reply to this

the drummer is HIDEOUS.

Posted by matthew fern | November 24, 2009 7:49 PM | Reply to this

Cool, gonna get a copy of it first thing in the morning :) xo

Posted by Nina Greenhalgh | November 24, 2009 7:50 PM | Reply to this

the band have also been confirmed to headline Download 2010

Posted by shitstorm | November 25, 2009 1:36 AM | Reply to this

yer and my shit is purple

Posted by matt | November 25, 2009 8:48 AM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

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kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 4:57 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee


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kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee


plzzz plzzzz plzzzzzz getttt ian watkins in the next isssuee imm sooo in loveee wiii himmmm ,,,,, gunnaaa seee himm in febbb YAAAYYY cnt waittt


kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee


plzzz plzzzz plzzzzzz getttt ian watkins in the next isssuee imm sooo in loveee wiii himmmm ,,,,, gunnaaa seee himm in febbb YAAAYYY cnt waittt


kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee


plzzz plzzzz plzzzzzz getttt ian watkins in the next isssuee imm sooo in loveee wiii himmmm ,,,,, gunnaaa seee himm in febbb YAAAYYY cnt waittt


kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee


plzzz plzzzz plzzzzzz getttt ian watkins in the next isssuee imm sooo in loveee wiii himmmm ,,,,, gunnaaa seee himm in febbb YAAAYYY cnt waittt


kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee


plzzz plzzzz plzzzzzz getttt ian watkins in the next isssuee imm sooo in loveee wiii himmmm ,,,,, gunnaaa seee himm in febbb YAAAYYY cnt waittt


kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 5:07 PM | Reply to this

OMG howw fit doesss Jared Leto lookk ,, total sexyyy

ive soo got the isssueee ,, cnt stop lookkinn at jared jst oooffttt

alsooo alexxx gaskarf hmmm niceeee

plzzz plzzzz plzzzzzz getttt ian watkins in the next isssuee imm sooo in loveee wiii himmmm ,,,,, gunnaaa seee himm in febbb YAAAYYY cnt waittt

kirsty <3 jared nd ian .....x

Posted by kirstyyyy ..x | November 25, 2009 5:07 PM | Reply to this

I really wish I knew where the hell to buy this mag in the states. Its driving me mad. I am not much younger than you Jared. but you are only as old as you feel right?

Posted by Sharon | November 27, 2009 2:25 PM | Reply to this

and smelling of rainbow sherbert?

Posted by Rod Farva | November 28, 2009 12:46 PM | Reply to this

good article

Cant wait for the Into The Wild Tour. 30 Seconds To Mars are amazing live. Anybody going? US dates are going to be released soon. Just check http://thirtysecondstomars.com for more dates being released. I cant wait.

Posted by Nadin | February 13, 2010 12:02 AM | Reply to this
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