Soundgarden Quotes
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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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I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.
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There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
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I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
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Music is supposed to be inspired.
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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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For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.
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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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Team Rock: Away from the band Soundgarden, do you guys still hang out together?
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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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I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
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They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.
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In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.
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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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Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?
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To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.