Chris Cornell

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.…

— Chris Cornell

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers…

— Chris Cornell

The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives,…

— Chris Cornell

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts…

— Chris Cornell

I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than…

— Chris Cornell

I think back to my childhood, and I remember running around as a kid. We were all running around then. It wasn't…

— Chris Cornell

Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or…

— Chris Cornell

Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on a whim. I never realised…

— Chris Cornell

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people…

— Chris Cornell

If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time.…

— Chris Cornell

The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is…

— Chris Cornell

I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees,…

— Chris Cornell

It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do…

— Chris Cornell

They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always…

— Chris Cornell

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because…

— Chris Cornell

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would…

— Chris Cornell

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my…

— Chris Cornell

There was about two years where I was more or less agoraphobic and didn't deal with anybody, didn't talk to anybody, didn't…

— Chris Cornell

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something…

— Chris Cornell

Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge…

— Chris Cornell

I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good…

— Chris Cornell