
“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”
Source: Black Coffee Blues
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”
Source: Black Coffee Blues
“People see me and think I have lots of girlfriends, do I look like I have lots of girlfriends?”
When asked if acting is something he would like to do more after his cameo in Singles ** Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml,
Soundgarden Era
“I don't have a sense of sanctuary. I don't have a place where I think I can go.”
Interview with Bill Moyers, Now, PBS (28 November 2003)
Context: I don't have a sense of sanctuary. I don't have a place where I think I can go. I once went to the famous Kyoto temple with the Zen garden, the gravel, the little mounds and it's, you know, it's been pictured over and over and over again. And what they don't tell you is that this little acre or some acre of serenity is surrounded by millions of people taking pictures.
So it sounds like a storm of mosquitoes constantly. And it never stops. And there's no serenity. And so not even in Japan can I find sanctuary.
Interview https://www.channel4.com/news/by/michael-crick/blogs/healey-case-for-leaving-europe-stronger-than-staying with Michael Crick (9 May 2013)
2010s
"Science vs. Romance"
Song lyrics, Take Offs and Landings (2001)
Martin Fowler (2002) as cited in Evolutionary Design: A Conversation with Martin Fowler, Part III by Bill Venners, November 18, 2002.