Kurt Cobain Quotes

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Believe everything you read

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.

I will get stoned and worship Satan.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

The future of rock belongs to women.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

All in all is all we are.

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.