I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

No band is special, no player royalty.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

Doubt never brings anything better

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

I did love Cher from Clueless. She had a great '90s wardrobe. The pleated skirts and the little knee-high socks and the whole school-girl thing.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.