Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.