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

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

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

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

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

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

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.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

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.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

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.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Times change and you have to adapt.

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

'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Failure isnt fatal but failure to change might be

inclusion is a right not a privilege for a select few.

I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

Happiness exists on earth and it is won through prudent exercise of reason knowledge of the harmony of the universe and constant practice of generosity.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

There's no shame in fear my father told me what matters is how we face it.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

I decided to grow my hair out during college, and it's kind of stuck ever since. Even when I thought about cutting it or trimming it, common sense kicks in, and I don't think the fans would recognize me; people wouldn't know who I am. It would almost be like Santa Claus losing his powers.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.