Quotes from Kurt Cobain

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

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

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

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

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

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

You can't buy happiness

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

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.

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

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

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.

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

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

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

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.

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