A biography for Tim Commerfordhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm still really proud of Rage as much as I am of Audioslave. I still love it when I turn on the radio and I hear a Rage song. I love that.”
“I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.”
“If Rage gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it'll be interesting to see who shows up.”
“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.”
“As a member of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and now Prophets of Rage I'm pretty used to coming on stage and there's a full house.”
“To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.”
“Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.”
“It's insane for me to say this, but I've never been in a room with anyone that's more talented on the electric guitar than Brendan O'Brien.”
“I think you still need to use music as a way to say something that's important, and I'm always gonna do that. Always.”
“I love being a dad, I love my wife and my kids are amazing to me and I love the challenge of making music and family work.”
“I don't believe ISIS is real.”
“We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.”
“My experience with playing in odd time signatures was progressive rock and learning King Crimson songs as a kid coming up and maybe learning Pink Floyd, 'Money,' that kind of thing.”
“I could have played water polo in high school instead of football. I would have gone to Stanford like my other buddies from Irvine who played water polo and ended up going to Stanford, you know.”
“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.”
“With Audioslave, it's all about melody and chord progressions.”
“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.”
“I like 'Discipline.' That's my favorite King Crimson album.”
“My bass is my weapon.”
“Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.”