"my ego is already inflated way past the exploding stage.i feel embarrased saying this,but id like to be recognized more as a
song writer.i don't pay attention to polls and charts,but i thumb throught them once and a while and see,like,eddie vedder
is nominated number one song writer in some magazine,and im not even listed."-kurt cobain 

"sometimes you wonder if anything has changed.just because everyone starts wearing flannel shirts doesnt mean they think
about the world any differently.if we had changed things,youd hear alot better music on the radio,wouldnt you?i can't deal
with all that...the future of grunge in america and all that.all i can do is worry about our band...and keep from becoming
another rock and roll cartoon"-kurt cobain

"let's face it,we already sold out two and a half years ago.theres no sense in trying to redeem yourself by putting out an
abrasive album and pretending your a punk rocker."-kurt

"these rednecks didn't like us at all.they were scared of us.we were really drunk,so we started making spectacles of
ourselves,playing off the bad vibes we were giving the rednecks...chris jumped through a window and then we played
flipper's sexbomb for about an hour.our girlfriends were hanging on us and grabbing our legs and doing a mock lesbian
scene.that started freaking out the rednecks.that was the idea of punk rock in the first place-to abuse your audience.what
better audience to have than a redneck audience?"-kurt

"i started getting in trouble,vandalizing,rebelling.i was never a bad kid...i was just disgusted,and at that age,i couldn't
figure out why.the school counselor would tell me,try to fit in with the people,dress the way they do,attend the dances,get
in to sports.that was always the big thing-get in to sports and your life is perfect"-kurt

"the intensity,the aggression,the hatred.you could just hear a lead singer scream at the top of his lungs.i felt that way.i
wanted to die.i wanted to kill.i wanted to smash things."-kurt

"punk rock kinda galvanized people in aberdeen.it brought us together and we had our litle scene after a while.everybody
realized-all the misfits realized,that rednecks werent just d*cks,they were total d*cks.and punk rock had this cool political
personal message.you know what i mean?it was a lot more cerebaral than just stupid cock rock"-chris

"Thank you all for coming, you've been a wonderful audience. Have a safe ride home. Remember not to drink and drive.
Remember to vote. Remember not to jaywalk. Remember not to take drugs while in the company of a minor.... or in front
of narcotics officers." - Dave Grohl

"If you throw one more shoe or one more coin I'm going to turn my guitar amplifier and leave for an hour, and it's going
to be massive feedback for an hour because when one.. rotten apple in the class fucks it up the rest have to suffer....okay?"
- Kurt

"Up until I was nine, I felt I could become a rock star or astronaut or the president."-Kurt

"Punk means freedom. It's doing, saying and playing whatever you want. 'Nirvana' means freeing oneself from pain and
the outside world."-Kurt

"We're just a new band that seems to be making it, and people might get bored of us pretty quickly. It's really weird seing
yuppies dancing to our songs."-Kurt

ON MEETING DAVE GROHL AND HIS BAND "SCREAM": 

"They were real rocker dudes, I hated them, I thought they were assholes. He (Dave) brought up this Primus tape from
their car and tried to play it, and everyone got mad at him."-Kurt 

ON GOING TO CAPITOL RECORDS AND MEETING A PROMO MAN: 

"He's this good old boy from Texas, looks like he would like to beat my mom up, I just wanted to dance on top of his
desk with a dress on and piss all over the place. Then he asked me 'So on that song "Polly" are you beatin' that bitch?',
and I said 'Yes, I am.' we knew this wasn't the label for us."-Kurt 

"If anything, our success gave us a dose of humility, the realization that we are just as normal and fucked-up as everyone
else."-Dave 
"There aren't any contemporary bands I really like. . .except the Pixies." -Kurt 

KURT EXPLAINS "HEART SHAPED BOX" "Everytime I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer
I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level, more than anything else on television. Anytime I think about it,
it makes me sadder than anything than I can think of. Whenever I see those little bald kids..."-Kurt 

"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."-Kurt 

"We want people to dance around, not kill each other." -Kurt on concerts 

KRIST TALKS TO KURT ABOUT THE "WHAT IF'S" OF IN UTERO 

"If this record bombs and it doesn't do anything, there's still all those years we spent in the van and all the good times we
had--we were happy back then and nobody can take that away from us. The music speaks for itself, we can put out good
records. So what if we have to play firteen-hundred-seaters. So what if Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots keep going to
the music award shows--we were never into that shit in the first place."-Krist

KRIST ON CENSORSHIP

"There's a lot of rap music and rock music for that matter Andrew Dice Clay, that's just fuckin' bullshit, it's just sexist
crap, but you have to tolerate it. You have to tolerate hate groups, too. because that's the price of freedom of speech--you
place your ideals above your feelings. I can't make the Ku Klux Klan illegal because i don't like it--I can't do that because
they have the right to believe what they want."-Krist


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