"Why'd we get called Frowngarden? Because we weren't party monsters. We weren't motherfucking rock..."

"Why'd we get called Frowngarden? Because we weren't party monsters. We weren't motherfucking rock stars. We were not like that. We were there to play music. We weren't there for the models and the cocaine. We were there to blow your doors off."

- Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd, on the band's gloomy reputation, in the forthcoming book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge