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She gives the night its dreams.
Be yourself is all that you can do.
Everybody is influenced by someone.
I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
I used to hate playing Seattle shows.
I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.
I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...
What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.
I've always had a really difficult time with loss.
It's good for me to be involved in different things.
I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.
There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
I don't listen to Beyonce or Jennifer Hudson records.
To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.
People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.
The words you say never live up to the words in your head.
In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.
When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.
Fans should be encouraged that I want to try different things.
I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.
Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.
Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.
I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.
'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.
I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.
No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.
I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.
I never look back, ever. I'm always looking ahead, working on the next thing.
One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by
When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.
I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.
It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.
I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.
There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.
I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.
I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.
Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.
For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.
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.
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.