Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.