DAVE GROHL AND TAYLOR HAWKINS OPEN UP ABOUT THE DEATH OF 'BEAUTIFUL GUY' CHRIS CORNELL

"When it comes to someone like Chris Cornell or Chester, you know, depression is a disease, and everybody goes through it their own way," Grohl answered, slowly so as to consider the question and give his answer the weight it deserves. Grohl and Cornell were contemporaries and brothers in grunge, having come up in the same scene that put Seattle and Olympia, Washington on the map in the '90s.

"I just always immediately think of their families, their bandmates, and just ... going through something like suicide, it's a long road, and Chris was such a beautiful guy, man. He was the sweetest person. He was so talented. He had so much to offer that it was a real shock to hear that he had gone. But you know, I think that mental health and depression is something that people should really take seriously. There's a stigma attached to it that's unfortunate, because just as you take care of yourselves in every other way, I think it's important that people try and take care of themselves in that way, too. And it ain't easy, you know? Life's hard."