If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.
Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.
She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.
In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.
When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.
When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
No band is special, no player royalty.
We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.
I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.
But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.
The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
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.
I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.
I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.
I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.
