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" The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. "
Kurt Cobain
Challenge
Youth
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" 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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" I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. "
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" I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something. "
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" Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. "
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" 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. "
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" Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. "
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" My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was. "
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Love
Now
" 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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" 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. "
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Pain
" I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. "
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Started
Proud
" I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. "
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Back
Nothing
" The sun is gone, but I have a light. "
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Sun
Light
Gone
" The worst crime is faking it. "
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Worst
Faking
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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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Red
Pain
Music
" I won't eat anything green. "
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Eat
Food
Green
" I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. "
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Heavy Metal
Attitude
Looking
" I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance. "
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Feel
Appearance
People
" 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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Touch
Jump
Guitar
" When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. "
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Time
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First
" 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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Voice
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" I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. "
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Never
Play
" I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. "
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Acting
Here
First
" 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. "
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Out
Like
Cheap
" 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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Done
Complaining
" I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. "
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I Am
Loved
" 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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Rose
Rock
" 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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