I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.