223 Quotes by Chris Cornell

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.

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.

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.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

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.

'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 huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

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

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