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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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
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Believe everything you read.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
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The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and then when I’m feeling a little nostalgic, I put on my ‘grunge tuxedo’ - flannel shirt, long shorts with long underwear underneath them, and a pair of Doc Martens - and dance around the house to Tad records.
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Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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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 can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
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When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
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The world sucks, people are not true.
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You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
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Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
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I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
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I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.