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.

There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

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

Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.

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.