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

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

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.

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.