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" The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void. "

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" When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. "

" My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. "

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" When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. "

" People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be. "

" No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold. "

" Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful. "

" 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. "

" If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. "

" It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake. "

" There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world. "

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" Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children. "

" If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia. "

" I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. "

" It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.' "

" A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand. "

" I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect. "

" At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself. "

" I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. "

" From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. "

" When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. "

" I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music. "

" I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better. "

" It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. "

" When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. "

" I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. "