Soundgarden Quotes
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I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
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For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
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There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
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No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.
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I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
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When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.
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It's definitely a different world. Smoking is bad for your voice, for sure, but you learn to function in that world of bad. Now I'm in better shape, and I'm much more physical onstage, but I have to watch getting winded. Once I'm winded, I don't sing right. I would have smoked three cigarettes already during this interview laughs.
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What's important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don't want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn't work for me.
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There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.
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The more info I read, the more the Rock & Roll hall of fame seems anti-rock. Rock was not meant to be judged by panels of old people.
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Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on a whim. I never realised how far out you can go when you are by yourself.
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There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.
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Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.
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I think back to my childhood, and I remember running around as a kid. We were all running around then. It wasn't about getting into shape. It's just what we did.
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There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.
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You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.
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Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.
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Interview with Team Rock Magazine, Summer 1996.
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Request Magazine: And now we're back to suicide. Some months have passed now since Kurt Cobain killed himself. Judging from his suicide note, it seems as if he thought there was something that was being demanded of him by the music industry or fans or someone, that he either couldn't or didn't want to deliver.
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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.
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Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam and melding them into one homogenous thing.
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Music is supposed to be inspired.
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When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.
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Team Rock: Away from the band Soundgarden, do you guys still hang out together?