Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.
[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.
Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.
Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.
The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend
I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.
I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.
One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.
I never really followed grunge.
I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.
Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.
It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
When I came out with 'Posse on Broadway,' I decided, enough with trying to imitate New York, enough with trying to imitate L.A., let's just be Seattle. And rock, grunge, followed right after 'Posse on Broadway' and Seattle just exploded.
When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.
With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
I like Kurt Cobain. [He] is like my dream boyfriend.
I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.
