Quotes About Authenticity

Rather be dead than cool.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

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 never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn't want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it's cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there's a hell, they'll go there.

Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.

I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

The worst crime is faking it

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not' Could be a summary of my book, 'Guilt Trip

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

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

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

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

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.

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

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

Rather be dead then cool

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.