Jerry Cantrell Quotations

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

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

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

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

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

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

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

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. The album is an overview of birth to now.

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

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

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

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

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

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

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

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

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

We're making it up as we go along. It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend.

We're at the point in time where if the system's not broken, we're in dire straits.

There will be some Alice In Chains shows this year - that's a fact.

It's my stuff, so I'm always going to feel strongly about it, but you never know how the public is going to react to it.

Everybody has disappointments in life, and we certainly had ours. I just want to continue living life. We're having a great time.

There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

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

I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but the few times we did spend together, you know, were times I'll always remember. You know, he was a really sweet guy, and a really genuine soul, you know, and an incredibly talented artist.

Times change and you have to adapt.