When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

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.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

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

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.