I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.