Chris Cornell Quotes

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Metric' and 'The Cardigans,' who are one of my favorite bands.

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

It'd be cool to do something with Coldplay, and Ryan Tedder's amazing.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.

I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.