Kurt Cobain Quotes

"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 the person you are."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

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

"The worst crime is faking it."

"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."

"If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!"

"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."

"The sun is gone, but I have a light."

"Rather be dead than cool."

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

"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."

"When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band."

"I like to complain and do nothing to make things better."

"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."

"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."

"I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me."

"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 bought a gun and chose drugs instead."

"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."

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

"A friend is nothing but a known enemy."

"I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't."

"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."

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

"I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them."

"I won't eat anything green."

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

"Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock."

"Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record."