It's a shame that famous people get all the focus, because it then gets glorified a little bit, like, 'This person was too sensitive for the world,' and, 'A light twice as bright lives half as long,' and all that. "People die of drug overdoses every day that nobody talks about. "What ends up happening with musicians and actors is, they're famous, so when somebody has an issue, it's something that gets talked about," he said. Sober for years, Cornell doesn't look back on his prior life of addiction as something he survived - even after the high-profile, drug-related deaths of artists like Scott Weiland and Prince. "It's about creativity and writing songs and being inspired by something, and what that feels like," he said of the album. Higher Truth feels similarly intimate and stripped down, suiting his new life as alt-rock's top traveling troubadour. In 2011 he released Songbook, a collection of live recordings from his acoustic tours. Soundgarden reunited in 2010, but Cornell has stuck with his solo career, too. He released a solo album in 1999 and formed the supergroup Audioslave with members of Rage Against the Machine, but could have joined any number of bands eager to utilize his one-of-a-kind wail. When Soundgarden broke up in 1997, Cornell became a free agent. But I'm not sure for me, personally, that was a period where I was seeing anything as clearly as I would've liked." "I didn't feel when that album came out like I was seeing the end of anything. Soundgarden rose to fame through the Seattle punk and metal scene in the late '80s before dropping three albums - 1991's Badmotorfinger, 1994's Superunknown and 1996's Down on the Upside - that sold millions of copies and established them as icons of the grunge era, as big as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.īut by the time Down on the Upside was released, "it was a difficult period in my life outside of the band," Cornell said. In some ways, the move to a more relaxed latitude mirrors Cornell's evolution as a singer, songwriter and human. "It might actually lend itself to the creative process a little bit, similarly to Seattle."īREAKING: Death of rocker Chris Cornell investigated as suicide "I'd come down here enough times to where I sort of had a feel for it, but it wasn't until working here that I felt like it was a place I understood a little better, and really started to grow to like a lot," he said.
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