“I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Go...” — Chris Cornell Quote

I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.

I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.

It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.