Chris Cornell

I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

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.

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.