Quotes from Kurt Cobain

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

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, then 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 have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

The future of rock belongs to women.

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.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true… I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

Zits are beauty marks.

Rather be dead than cool.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

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.

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

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.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.