Kurt Cobain
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.Collection: Good
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.Collection: Food
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.Collection: Death
I won't eat anything green.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Music
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.Collection: Anger
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.Collection: Time
There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.Collection: Attitude
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.Collection: Food
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.Collection: Time
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.Collection: Age
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Success
Rather be dead than cool.Collection: Cool
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.Collection: Music
I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.Collection: Women
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.Collection: Attitude
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.Collection: Anger
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.
I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
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.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
The sun is gone, but I have a light.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
The worst crime is faking it.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.
I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
I really miss being able to blend in with people.
I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.