223 Quotes by Chris Cornell

To me, music shouldn’t be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you’re sitting in a room, writing songs, it’s a completely different process. It’s a completely different place. It’s a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

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.

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

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it’s very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there’s a better song in there if there’s less.

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.

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.

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

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