Kurt Cobain Quotes

No one is afraid of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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 was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I’m just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there’s going to be massive feed back for an hour.

I just don’t like to get intimate. I don’t want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can’t get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that’s too bad.

The worst crime is faking it.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they’ve transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

Maybe we can change some kid’s life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.