Kurt Cobain Quotes
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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.
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I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
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I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
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Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.
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We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.
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I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.
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The world sucks, people are not true.
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I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
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In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
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Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.
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I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had.
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I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.
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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
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I won't eat anything green.
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I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.