Cornell Says ‘Like A Stone’ Isn’t About Staley

Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell tells MTV News that the band’s next release, ‘Like A Stone’, isn’t about his late friend Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. “No. I’m not one of those guys where, like, something happens and then I go run around, ‘Ooh, 9/11, and now it’s 9/12, let me write about that,’ ” Cornell explained. “I wrote the lyrics before he died. … You can misinterpret that stuff pretty easy, but I don’t tend to sit down and plan on writing about a specific issue. They come up or they don’t.” Read more.