They always say that the entertainment and restaurant industries are the only businesses that don't sink during a depression or a recession. I've done both, and I recommend to anyone who wants to be a rock star, if that doesn't pan out, become a cook.

Chris Cornell

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

Chris Cornell

light night believe

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

Chris Cornell

words-you-say

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. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.

Chris Cornell

creative people thinking

Be yourself is all that you can do.

Chris Cornell

being-yourself can-do

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.

Chris Cornell

independent successful jobs

And I'm lost behind

Chris Cornell

left-behind behinds lost

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 entertainment and music should be.

Chris Cornell

creating entertainment thinking

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

Chris Cornell

realizing fun people

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.

Chris Cornell

healing believe people

I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave.

Chris Cornell

rocks perfect thinking

She gives the night its dreams.

Chris Cornell

expression dream night

I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don't know that won't happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.

Chris Cornell

focus people thinking

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.

Chris Cornell

adults children world

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.'

Chris Cornell

stones jesus thinking

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts. Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them.

Chris Cornell

done letting-go art

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Chris Cornell

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

responsibility song people

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

Chris Cornell

voice character

It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.

Chris Cornell

successful people school

Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

Chris Cornell

whatever-it-takes