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

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.

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.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.

I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.