Nirvana Quotes
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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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 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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Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
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It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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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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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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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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Believe everything you read.
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In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.
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At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
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I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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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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Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
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To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.
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I won't eat anything green.
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Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
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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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I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.
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I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.