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" John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. "

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" I bought a gun and chose drugs instead. "

" 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. "

" I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. "

" 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. "

" I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance. "

" I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection. "

" The worst crime is faking it. "

" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. "

" I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something. "

" 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. "

" Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. "

" I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks. "

" I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. "

" I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. "

" 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. "

" If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle. "

" Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. "

" We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. "

" I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well. "

" 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. "

" I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday. "

" I really miss being able to blend in with people. "

" If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! "

" The sun is gone, but I have a light. "

" I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. "