Photo of Chris Cornell taken by Patrick Dunn on May 13, 2017 at Northern Invasion in Somerset, WI

Guitarist Tom Morello recently opened up about his love for Chris Cornell.

Talking with Revolver, Morello said, “First of all, I was a bandmate and a friend of Chris but I never stopped being a fan.”

“I love metal and I loved poetry, and Chris Cornell was one of the people that brought those things together, and in a way, it was commercially successful at the top of the chart,” Morello continued about his Audioslave bandmate.

“‘Like a Stone,’ ‘I Am the Highway,’ no matter what we threw at him – the simplest chord progression, or the most complicated heavy riff, he’d just sit in a chair with a cigarette, and he’s like, ‘OK, that sounds like a great song right there,” Morello added. “What’s next?’”

Take a listen to the Revolver interview below.