Chris Cornell

“No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.”

“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 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.'”

“I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.”

“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.”

“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 never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.”

“In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great albums - but don't be under the impression I'm going to be a lyricist that writes anything ot...”

“'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we were three quarters of the way through mixing it.”

“There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.”

“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.”

“I think my children are definitely musically inclined, and they show it, and they're exposed to a lot of it. And they're their own people, and I think easily they could do something musical,...”

“'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.”

“I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of gett...”

“I never look back, ever. I'm always looking ahead, working on the next thing.”

“There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.”

“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.”

“When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out the...”

“When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of hor...”

“When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.”