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I wasn't the easiest guy to work with when I was younger.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

In 1997, I thought I'd never make another record.

My favorite record, growing up, was 'Songs of the Haunted House,' a Disney record that was just wackiness. It's still one of my favorites, actually.

Everybody has unhappiness.

I was in trouble with the law from when I was real young.

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

Me and Kurt Cobain were both listening to a bunch of Lead Belly and diggin' it. We thought, 'Let's do an EP of all Lead Belly songs.' We did a couple, and both of us were like, 'Nah, this is a bad concept.' We set it aside.

Usually I write on guitar.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.

I enjoy working on whatever I'm working on.

I enjoy watching basketball, yeah.

I prefer to stay in the here and now and move forward.

I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.

When they're listening to your music all the time, you become part of their life, and some people get obsessed.

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

I've always said everything happens the way it's supposed to.

I'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

It isn't important to me how people respond to my work.

Nothing seems too weird to me anymore.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

I'm open to life.

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

I've always been haunted by the devastating voice and beautiful songs of Tim Hardin. I can't imagine anyone hearing him and not feeling the same.

'Gargoyle' was inching towards a more accessible record.

I would only tell a story if I was being mercilessly heckled. That's the only time I would talk to the audience.

It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past.

I wanted 'Imitations' to be a fully realized record from start to finish, with a cohesive sound and a sequence that took you from one song to the other, just like I would with a record of original stuff.

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

It's always fun to play songs by somebody else.

It was really difficult to sing; nobody showed me how to do it. I remember early Screaming Trees shows in the '80s when I'd walk away with a pounding headache from trying to sing way out of my range.

If Brian Eno wanted to make a record, I'd definitely clear some time in my calendar. John Cale, too. Those guys consistently make great records, always doing their own thing.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

We've made records for years on a shoestring.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

I think I've just matured over the years.

Hanging out with the Trees is like hanging out with your family, and I hardly ever see my family.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.

Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic music.

When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.

I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.

It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

Usually I get asked to do stuff that's cool, and if I ever can't do something, it's usually, because of logistics, I don't have the time for it. Rarely do I get ask to do something that I'd rather not do. I usually do it if I feel that it's something I can do.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find both satisfying in different ways.

I just sort of do what comes natural.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

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