CHRIS CORNELL: 'I Don't See Any Reason Or Need To Be In A Band Situation Again'

April 23, 2007

Former AUDIOSLAVE/SOUNDGARDEN vocalist Chris Cornell told MTV.com that it's time to move on and continue on his own. From here on out, he said, he'll be going it alone. "This, for me, is what I intend to do," Cornell explained. "I wouldn't be averse to doing some other kind of collaboration, but I'm best in my own world, musically. As far as where my focus is at, I am having a really great time doing this. I don't see any reason or need to be in a band situation again. It's something that I've enjoyed every time I've done it, but time spent doing that is time away from being able to make my own records and experiment with music any way I feel like. My record hasn't even come out yet, and already I am thinking of other records I want to make."

On April 15, Cornell shot a video in New York for his new solo album's second single, "Arms Around Your Love", with director Caswell Coggins (JJ72, THE FEELING). The clip, he said, follows the narrative of the song's lyrics and tells a rather relatable story.

"It's something guys go through often — that kind of horror everybody's going to feel at least once, when they've screwed up a relationship and don't think it means that much to them, and all of a sudden they see this person with someone else, or they have that immediate recognition and understanding that this person's never going to be in their life in that way ever again," he said. "When you are going through it, it's one of the heaviest, most intense things — almost worse than a death in the family. But the video follows that idea, and how people deal with it."

The clip will feature Cornell with his backing band, performing live on what's supposed to be "a German television show during the late '70s."

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