I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.

I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.