Everybody has unhappiness.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

I enjoy watching basketball, yeah.

I hope I'm learning until I'm dead.

I think a myth is created from truth.

Soundgarden are good friends of mine.

I'm not really interested in video games.

I think I've just matured over the years.

When I think of a hit, I think of Madonna.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

In 1997, I thought I'd never make another record.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

I grew up a Seattle Sonics fan, in Washington state.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

I prefer to stay in the here and now and move forward.

I was excited when the Afghan Whigs got back together.

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

It isn't important to me how people respond to my work.

I wasn't the easiest guy to work with when I was younger.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

Most of the music I'm into wasn't popular when it was being made.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

I'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

Talking about myself is difficult for me. It's anti my true nature.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

It's hard not to respect Kobe Bryant's game: He's one of the all-time greats.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.

I'd wear nice clothes and brush my teeth more often if I cared about what people thought.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

The Warriors team with Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson - that was an incredible team.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

Hanging out with the Trees is like hanging out with your family, and I hardly ever see my family.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

I like Jamal Crawford. He's from Seattle, went to high school there, lived up there. He's fantastic.

As far as I remember, I don't have any warrants out for my arrest anymore. I can travel without fear.

Doing something that's physical but not necessarily mentally taxing - for me, it frees me up creatively.

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