Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

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.

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.

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

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.