It's that weird magic of if you sing a song you're connecting to emotionally, it's going to trick me into feeling my emotions. I'm not feeling your [pain], I don't know what happened to you, but you have just tricked me into feeling my own pain and my own emotions and that is an amazing thing. That's this miraculous thing about music. Film can do it too, art can do it, but music does it great. That's where making an album like this ['Higher Truth'] is exciting and special. The downside is you pretty much have to do it on every song. You don't get a free pass unless you write a joke song, which I'm not good at. If I wrote like the [Beatles'] ballad ‘Rocky Raccoon' or something I could get away from it for a second. A song about a raccoon that gets in a gun fight. (Chris Cornell)

It's that weird magic of if you sing a song you're connecting to emotionally, it's going to trick me into feeling my emotions. I'm not feeling your [pain], I don't know what happened to you, but you have just tricked me into feeling my own pain and my own emotions and that is an amazing thing. That's this miraculous thing about music. Film can do it too, art can do it, but music does it great. That's where making an album like this ['Higher Truth'] is exciting and special. The downside is you pretty much have to do it on every song. You don't get a free pass unless you write a joke song, which I'm not good at. If I wrote like the [Beatles'] ballad ‘Rocky Raccoon' or something I could get away from it for a second. A song about a raccoon that gets in a gun fight.

Chris Cornell

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