Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.