Tim Commerford

“With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.”

“I'm a bass player and I love the bass.”

“I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.”

“Is punk rock really music, or is it really just an attitude? I get into that discussion with people all of the time. I personally consider be-bop jazz to be punk rock. And prog rock would definitely fall in that category too.”

“Ultimately it's a blessing to be able to make music.”

“I've played in front of a hundred thousand people and it's easy for me to squint my eyes and blur my vision and then all the people just turn into a giant piece of pizza or something. Everyone becomes one, you know.”

“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.”

“I love all kinds of music and I love to play or try to play all kinds of music.”

“No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your idea is going to be embraced, and even if it isn't, that everyone is going to work on it as hard as they can, then that's a great thing.”

“I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.”

“But when I was a teenager, I was in my room learning how to play bass by listening to Rush and the Sex Pistols. I wasn't reading Karl Marx.”

“I absolutely feel that Rage failed.”

“I love my tattoo and I think it looks great. It's like an old pair of jeans, it's beat up. I remember when I first got it outlined. I'm like 'why don't more guys do this?' Then I realized the pain.”

“I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important thing.”

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

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

“I was a huge prog rock fan as a kid in high school, and I'm so thankful for that.”

“And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.”

“I'm a conspiracy theorist. I can't help but look at the lunar landing and go, 'We didn't go to the moon.' We never went there. My dad worked for NASA on the Apollo missions, and I've always felt it's been fake since I was a kid.”

“Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.”