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No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
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Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
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You create attention to attract attention.
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I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.
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I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
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I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.
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There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.
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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.
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I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
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I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
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Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
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Once you fall in love... It's different.
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I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.
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I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.
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I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.
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I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.
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Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.
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There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.