You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.