Kurt Cobain

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

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

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 had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

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 sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

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.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

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

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

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.

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 thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

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 like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

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.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

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

I won't eat anything green.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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

Rather be dead than cool.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

The worst crime is faking it.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.