People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave.

Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.