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I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

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

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

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

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

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.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

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

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

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

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.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

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.

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

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.

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.

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

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

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.

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.

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

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

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