Everybody is influenced by someone.

- Chris Cornell

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

- Chris Cornell

Be yourself is all that you can do.

- Chris Cornell

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

- Chris Cornell

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

- Chris Cornell

I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't.…

- Chris Cornell

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

- Chris Cornell

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 ent…

- Chris Cornell

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 proc…

- Chris Cornell