Quotes from Kurt Cobain

I hate myself, and I want to die

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

Peace, love, empathy

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 father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

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.

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

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

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

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

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

Teenage angst has paid off wellNow I'm bored and old.

I'd rather be dead than cool.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

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

I won't eat anything green.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

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

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

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.