Quotes from Tim Commerford

I like 'Discipline.' That's my favorite King Crimson album.

With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.

A great thing of getting older is coming to terms and saying sorry and trying to repair damage that happened in the past.

We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.

I don't know what to say... There's always animosity when a singer leaves a band. It's like you're a football team and the quarterback just split for more money on another team.

For me, I've always been intimidated by the computer coming from the era of record industry and record stores and buying records and looking at album covers, waiting in line for records when they came out and then ultimately being successful in a band where we recording pre-computer era.

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

Generally speaking people that come to an amphitheater show, they're not coming to see the opening band.

Living in L.A., it's such a big huge place and there's so much of it. It's so much fun to be in Chinatown, or Downtown L.A. I was in Lynnwood, I was in Huntington Beach. I was in Venice. It's an incredible place.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

For me it's liberating to be able to look somebody in the eyes and know that they can't see my eyes. I've always thought that when I would see Slipknot playing.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.