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" I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. "
Kurt Cobain
Hated
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Loved
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" I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. "
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" John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. "
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" I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. "
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" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "
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" If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. "
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" If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle. "
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" I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. "
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" I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean. "
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" Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all. "
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" A friend is nothing but a known enemy. "
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" It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. "
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Okay
" 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. "
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Looking
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" I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them. "
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Two
World
" I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form. "
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Results
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" I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd. "
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" I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. "
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Started
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" I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. "
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Divorce
Me
Good
" I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl. "
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Talk
Important
Girl
" I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something. "
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Gay
Me
" I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. "
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Man
Average
" The worst crime is faking it. "
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Faking
Crime
" I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. "
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" I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time. "
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" Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me. "
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" I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. "
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" My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. "
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" When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times. "
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Me
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