Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.
I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.
I never really followed grunge.
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.
We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.
It's pretty clear I am a diehard Chris Cornell fan, so his voice, musicianship, and lyrics have touched me across many different projects.
I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.
I love '90s grunge and punk.
Soundgarden are good friends of mine.
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.
I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave.
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.
