Kurt Cobain

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid.

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

I'm not mad. I'm in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion. ... People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male — or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

I used to think when I was young, that I was adopted by my mother because they found me in a spaceship, and they let me out, and I was from a different planet.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

I won't eat anything green.

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 was as schizophrenic as a wet cat that's been beaten.

I've done enough pot in my life where I don't need to do it anymore i learned too late that it destroys your memory. and now I'm suffering for it.

I think it's really lame for journalists to write and accuse me of taking drugs because kids are going to read that article. and then they're going to do drugs. because I do that's really lame. i'm kind of an example for people and there are 9-year-old kids who are into our band. and if they think that I take drugs. and I think it's cool then they're going to do it. too you know I don't like bands who promote drug use because it influences people and it isn't cool

I'm a firm believer in karma, and that motherfucker is going to get what he deserves, eventually. That man will be caught, he'll go to jail, and he'll be raped.

I used to try to make my head explode by holding my breath, thinking that if I blew up my head, they'd [mom and dad] be sorry.

I wanted to move to Seattle, sell my ass, and be a punk rocker, but I was too afraid.

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 whinning about for years.

The white man ripped off the black man long enough. They should leave rap music to the African-Americans because they do it so well and it is so vital to them. ... I'm a fan of rap music, but most of it is so misogynist that I can't even deal with it. I'm really not that much of a fan, I totally respect and love it because it's one of the only original forms of music that's been introduced, but the White man doing rap is just like watching a White man dance. We can't dance, we can't rap.