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'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.Collection: Chris
I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.Collection: Chris
'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we were three quarters of the way through mixing it.Collection: Chris
I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.Collection: Chris
One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.Collection: Chris
There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.Collection: Chris
I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.Collection: Chris
I've always had a really difficult time with loss.Collection: Chris
The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.Collection: Chris
My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.Collection: Chris
When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.Collection: Chris
I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.Collection: Chris
There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.Collection: Chris
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.Collection: Chris
My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.Collection: Chris
I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.Collection: Chris
As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.Collection: Chris
When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.Collection: Chris
Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.Collection: Chris
A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.Collection: Chris
I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.Collection: Chris
I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.Collection: Chris
When you're young, playing drums is immediately satisfying 'cause whether or not you know how to play anything, the bottom line is that you're pounding on something, so you're happy about it.Collection: Chris
When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.Collection: Chris
I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.Collection: Chris
For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.Collection: Chris
I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.Collection: Chris
I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.Collection: Chris
I shouldn't be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.Collection: Chris
I'm an entertainer, aren't I? I think.Collection: Chris
I tell my children, look at what your father did, you can do anything you want.Collection: Chris
The harshness of my upbringing did not affect me in the negative. But it has affected many people in the negative.Collection: Chris
I think a great deal of my son, I love my son. The things I do are unthinkable. I do them because he even though he can't see the pain on my side, I still give and give for what? So he can have a better future.Collection: Chris
Most people seem to think I am something of a character and the things that have befallen me are par for my course.Collection: Chris
Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.Collection: Chris
Yes, I have spent. I have lived and had accidents. It's all part of life's wonderful experience.Collection: Chris
You see, there are many types of wealth and money is only one of them. I have different wealths, like the wealth of my health.Collection: Chris
You aren't going to show me something I haven't seen. Nobody can bring something to me that I don't already know, not in boxing. That's where I've mastered my trade, I can't talk in other fields.Collection: Chris
If you don't produce the goods, you're very quickly forgotten.Collection: Chris
The reason why I'm such a successful pugilist is that no one knows my limitations better than me. I am quite good, but I am not the best in the world. But I am one of the best and I'm quite content with that.Collection: Chris
Everything controversial is good for boxing.Collection: Chris
The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.Collection: Chris
When people speak disparagingly about others, they are really damaging themselves.Collection: Chris
However controversial Mayweather may be, he doesn't bring down the name of boxing. The fast cars, the jets and the money causes controversy but that does not bring the game down.Collection: Chris
Fighters who speak disparagingly about fighters from years gone by do us all a disservice. It is treacherous.Collection: Chris
I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.Collection: Chris
Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.Collection: Chris
I see myself as a martial artist. I'm a creative fighter. It's not about hitting the guy and hurting him, it's about scoring points, with grace.Collection: Chris
I beat many good fighters and many who were better than me and the reason I beat them was because I was persistent, I was willing to go through those pain barriers.Collection: Chris
Boxing? She's like a woman. If you've never wooed her, never won her, you always look back wondering what would have happened had you had her. If you caught her and had a long relationship, you don't really look back. Do I miss her? No, because I've had her, I've moved on.Collection: Chris