If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.