Know that thing about Soundgarden making a comeback? You know: playing the Showbox and Lollapalooza, then releasing retrospective Telephantasm in a package with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock? Turns out they’re on the cover of the September issue of SPIN magazine, too. David Peisner got everyone in the reunited band—front man Chris Cornell, bassist Ben Shepherd, guitarist Kim Thayil, and drummer Matt Cameron—together for a chat in Seattle, talking ’bout the 1997 breakup, drinking, drugs, homelessness, the usual. The quote of the decade comes from Shepherd:

“My whole life seemed over. Soundgarden broke up; my other band, Hater, broke up; my fiancée broke up with me; and then I broke three ribs. I got addicted to pain pills, drank a ton, and wound up OD’ing on morphine. I was laid out in my house for five days, and no one knew it. It was a f***ing horrible time—this total rock’n’roll cliché.”

The issue hits newsstands on August 23, but an excerpt of the article is online already at spin.com.