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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
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My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
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It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.
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Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.
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It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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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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All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned.
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I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
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My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had.
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There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.
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I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!
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Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.
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Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
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I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
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I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!
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Rather be dead then cool.
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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 mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.
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What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.
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I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.