Image Courtesy of 42 WestFilm director Cameron Crowe has a strong connection to grunge. He wrote and directed Singles, the 1992 film about the Seattle grunge movement, and he directed the Pearl Jam documentary Pearl Jam Twenty. So it makes sense that Crowe would interview Chris Cornell about his forthcoming solo album, Higher Truth.
In a clip from the conversation between the two artists, which you can watch on Cornell's Facebook page, Crowe asks the Soundgarden frontman what message he would like to give his fans with Higher Truth.
"I think it would be a note to explain to them that this exists, and that I was able to do this, and sort of pointed to do this, because of the overwhelming support I've felt from them," Cornell responds. "I think that's what I want to do with this album, is to be like, this is a group of people that have put up with me doing a lot of crazy stuff and a lot of different stuff over the years and still just be so much being there, and so encouraging and enthusiastic about whatever it is that I've done, or whatever it is that I'm doing now."
Still, Cornell didn't write Higher Truth from the perspective of trying to match what you might want to hear.
"I can't write songs or make records that in a way where I feel like I'm writing what people want to hear, I feel like that's a bad idea." he says. "I've got my own world, we don't need to mingle that with yours, that'll f*** up the magic. So I don't do that, but I do feel like it's important to me to somehow kind of express that I feel it, that it means something to me, and that I feel super lucky. I don't ever want to take that for granted."
In other Chris Cornell news, the singer announced that the video for "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart," the lead single from Higher Truth, will be unveiled on Friday.
Higher Truth will be released September 18.
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