Kurt Cobain Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.”

“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.”

“In the sun I feel as one.”

“Rather be dead than cool.”

“It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.”

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

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

“Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.”

“My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.”

“Who needs action when you got words?”

“When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.”

“Oh well, whatever, nevermind.”

“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.”

“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 won't eat anything green.”

“None of you will ever know what I am thinking.”

“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”

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

“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.”

“Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.”

“That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.”

“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.”