Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

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

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

The worst crime is faking it.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.