Cobain Quotations

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

I like Kurt Cobain. [He] is like my dream boyfriend.

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don’t understand me,

Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless shred of human debris...