As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I'm not a good guitar player.

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Exchange is creation.

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

And hold up to the sun my little taper.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom