Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
There're the causes where people are like, "What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded. " So it's an exchange. I don't mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we're actually being that way.
I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.
We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.
Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'. . . nowadays it's 'fabricators'. . . talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
Every autobiography. . . becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figurepart of this entertainment industry.
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.