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There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.

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You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

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I think my children are definitely musically inclined, and they show it, and they're exposed to a lot of it. And they're their own people, and I think easily they could do something musical, or they could do something in acting or film or other types of the arts, and I would fully support it.

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I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

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Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam and melding them into one homogenous thing.

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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

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To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

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There's a lot of music that I don't like.

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I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.

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I think back to my childhood, and I remember running around as a kid. We were all running around then. It wasn't about getting into shape. It's just what we did.

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A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

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My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.

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When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

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

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My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

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When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.

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There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

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There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.

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One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.

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I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.

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'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.

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When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

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Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.

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Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

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It's good for me to be involved in different things.

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I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

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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.

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The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.

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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

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I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

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The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

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I've always had a really difficult time with loss.

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Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.

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I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

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I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.

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