Nirvana Quotes
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Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.
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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 live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
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When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
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I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
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I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
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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 always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
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In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.
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There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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I will get stoned and worship Satan.
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And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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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'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.
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Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle.
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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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And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
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It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.