“My view of rock history now includes grunge as a major genre shift in the history of rock, the same as you would look at punk rock or the British Invasion. And we’re clearly pioneers of that genre and are recognized as being that.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.comTagged: Rock History, Grunge, punk rock, British Invasion
“No matter how happy you are, you can wake up one day without any specific thing occurring to bring you into a darker place, and you’ll just be in a darker place anyway.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.comTagged: Depression, Happiness
“I think that I always struggled with depression and isolation, so those could come out. I think that the mood of Seattle to me, and the way that I always interpreted that mood was something that was always a little bit introspective and dark.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.comTagged: Depression, Isolation, Seattle, introspective
“We were not a band that would sit down and discuss a direction of an album before we started writing. We just focused on song after song, and, as we would arrange them and learn more, the album slowly took shape.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.comTagged: Soundgarden, album, Songwriting
“I never look back, ever. I’m always looking ahead, working on the next thing.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.comTagged: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Encouraging