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

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.

When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.