QUOTES by Mike McCready
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'Black Diamond' blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I'd probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!
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When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.
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We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.
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We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.
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We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.
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A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.
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Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.
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You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.
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We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.
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Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.
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Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our own thing, and then we get back together.
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There's times when I go, 'We should have done a bunch of videos.'...Regardless of mistakes we've made, we made 'em, and we own 'em.
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We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.
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I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'
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I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.
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As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.
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It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.
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I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.
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To be able to make a living doing what I love is truly a gift, and I'm thankful for that every day.
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I'm the kind of guy who wants to be involved in everything concerning our new baby. I don't want to miss a thing.
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Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.
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I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'
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I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.
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Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.
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I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.
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Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.
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I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.
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When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.
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Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.
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The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
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Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.
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Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
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It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.
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I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.
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I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
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I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.
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