Quotes

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

It's not a bad time to be me.

"Every time I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes".

The love received is the love that is saved.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

(about the song "Jeremy") It came from a small paragraph in a paper which means you kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. Sixty-three degrees and cloudy in a suburban neighborhood. That's the beginning of the video and that's the same thing is that in the end, it does nothing ... nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people. And then you can come back.

[on the Roskilde tragedy - SPIN magazine, September 2000] I never really spoke with anybody about Roskilde. It's the most brutal experience we ever had. I'm still trying to come to grips with it. Right before we went on that night, we got a phone call. Chris Cornell and his wife, Susan, had a daughter that day. And also a sound guy left a day early, 'cause he was going to have a child. It brought me to tears, I was so happy. We were walking out onstage that night with two new names in our heads. And in 45 minutes everything changed.

[on what he thinks of Chris Cornell's LP with Timbaland - Uncut Magazine, September 2009] I haven't heard it. Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well. I really like Chris' records and I think he's the best singer that we've got on the planet. I first met Chris when I moved to Seattle, and we started hanging around. I didn't know what musicians did with their life, and I quickly realized that what he did on a Friday night was to get a 12-pack of shitty beer and chase his dog around on the mud for four hours in the forest. That was about an exciting an epiphany as I had! I haven't seen him in town for a while, but I have taken over the whole dog-chasing practice - me and my Hawaiian mutt. The beer's gotten slightly better too.