People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.