"My lyrics are a big pile of..." - Quote by Kurt Cobain

“There is nothing I like more than pure underground music”

“It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.”

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

“The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.”

“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”

“These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.”

“If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.”

“It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.”

“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.”