Chris Cornell Quotes

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

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

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

Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

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

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.

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.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

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.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

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 at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

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 someone else too.

Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.

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.

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

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 I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

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

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

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 over and over again.

What's important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don't want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn't work for me.

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.