Jerry Cantrell

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.