Kurt Cobain

“Who needs action when you got words?”

“I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals”

“The future of rock belongs to women.”

“If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.”

“I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.”

“There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.”

“I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.”

“I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.”

“I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.”

“I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.”

“There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.”

“If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!”

“I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.”

“I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.”

“America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.”

“The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.”

“Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.”

“I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.”

“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.”

“I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.”

“You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.”

“The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.”

“With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.”

“Once you fall in love... It's different.”

“I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...”

“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”

“I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.”

“Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.”

“I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.”

“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.”

“When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.”

“Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend”

“Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.”

“Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.”

“I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.”

“I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.”

“I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.”

“A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.”

“Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.”

“I'm not like them, but I can pretend.”

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

“I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.”

“If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.”

“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”

“Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.”

“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”

“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.”

“She eyes me like a pisces.”

“There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.”

“I'm on my time with everyone.”