Jerry Cantrell

“Music has always been my protection against the world.”

“Everybody's got a dark side. Do you love me? Can you love mine?”

“The music is the most important thing. I've learned all the other stuff is a bonus.”

“There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of Layne. I miss him.”

“Change is part of life. You have to roll with it.”

“It's about finding your own voice, and being true to that voice.”

“I think every record is a snapshot of where you are at that time in your life.”

“There's a lot of beauty in the darkness.”

“You're making something that you're going to have to live with for the rest of your life.”

“My dad was a combat vet from Vietnam. He was a machinist. My mom was a clerk in a school.”

“I write about what I know, what I feel. I don't know how to do it any other way.”

“Life is not always a pretty thing.”

“I always felt like I was on the outside of things.”

“You can't really control how people are going to receive your music.”

“I think it's important to grow as an artist, and as a person.”

“I just do what I do. I'm a rock and roll guy.”