Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.