To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.