I listen to too many people. I’m only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.
It’s the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It’s what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can’t play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms.
I don’t really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!
No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn’t make you cry.
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it’s all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you’re not when you’re not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you’re a liar.
I’m not psychic, but my lyrics are.
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I’ll come around and blow up your toilet.
I’m so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
I lived out my little rock’n’roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn’t gotten into so much trouble for it.
Four inch nails is more like it!
I’m covered with loser dust.
Rock is all about writing your own script; it’s all about pioneering.
Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto.
Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation – that’s what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I’m trying to really appreciate and like men more.
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you’re under 30, whatever, but once you’re past 40 it’s just ugly.
If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she’ll answer any questions you have about it.
I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse.