One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.