Chris Cornell Quotes

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Some of my closest friends know that when I worry about something or when I'm upset, I close myself off and stay in my room. I watch movies and I don't get out of bed.

If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I'm somewhat depressive.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

I think I am naturally depressive.

I identify with Sad Girls.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

I don't really know what depression is, I don't think I've felt it. I probably have. Things aren't the same when you're losing. You're not happy. That can happen. But I try to keep them separate as much as possible.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.