Matt Cameron Quotes

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.

I feel like such an idiot... you know, that our band didn't break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town.

When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have to just consistently crank out albums and run off on tour for the sake of supporting myself.

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a touring musician meant that you'd be gone a lot and that was going to make other things a lot harder, like having a family.

I dropped out of school at 17 'cause all I wanted to do was play music. I had odd jobs on the side of gigging until I turned 22, when I was lucky to start doing this full time.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I've been doubling down here in the tech world.