But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.

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

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.