Kurt Cobain Quotes

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

The worst crime is faking it.

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.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

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.

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 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 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.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

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.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

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

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

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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.

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

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’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

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

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

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.

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

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.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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

I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.