You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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.