The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled…

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go…

— Chris Cornell

Music is supposed to be inspired.

— Chris Cornell

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire…

— Chris Cornell

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and…

— Chris Cornell

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those…

— Chris Cornell

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

— Chris Cornell

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who…

— Chris Cornell

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've…

— Chris Cornell

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to…

— Chris Cornell

When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of…

— Chris Cornell

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing…

— Chris Cornell

It's good for me to be involved in different things.

— Chris Cornell

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from…

— Chris Cornell

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

— Chris Cornell

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and…

— Chris Cornell