Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.
In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.
I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.
There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days.
I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.
Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.
I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!
I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.
Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.
I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.
Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Four inch nails is more like it!
I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.
But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
