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.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.

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.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.