Quotes from Kurt Cobain

I'm on my time with everyone.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

Once you fall in love... It's different.

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

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 don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

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.

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

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'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'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 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 like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

Believe everything you read

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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.

The worst crime is faking it

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

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

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