And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Times change and you have to adapt.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn't match my grill.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!

You know, I do not think it is necessarily looks, I do not think I am the prettiest girl... Everyone has something that is their asset, some have the hair, some have the cheekbones, others have the lips. But once you know what is your asset, then you should capitalize on it.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.