Chris Cornell Quotes

I was born and raised in Hawaii.

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.

I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii?

I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

What I know of Hawaii is from watching the 'Brady Bunch' shows from the seventies.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.

Eventually, I want to move to Hawaii and chill forever.

I've never been to Hawaii. It looks amazing.

My favorite vacation destination is Hawaii.

Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

Mina loves Hawaii, and she goes there a lot for vacation.

The Aloha spirit is something that is very special and very meaningful to us and our Polynesian culture. Those of you who have had the opportunity to visit Hawaii, or any of the Polynesian islands, know that it's a very special thing. It's an intangible, and when you get off the plane and have your feet on the ground there, it energetically takes you to a different place.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

I like islands.

Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.