Nirvana Quotes
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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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 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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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 started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
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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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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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I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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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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The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.
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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 won't eat anything green.
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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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And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
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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.
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
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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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I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.