Chris cornell

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if...

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a...

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 away.

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.