Nirvana Quotes
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The world sucks, people are not true.
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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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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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I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
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There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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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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Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
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I won't eat anything green.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
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Believe everything you read.
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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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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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Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
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I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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 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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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
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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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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.