"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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"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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"I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me."
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"I bought a gun and chose drugs instead."
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"You create attention to attract attention."
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"Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons."
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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'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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"When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star."
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"I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes."
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"There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before."
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"For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles."
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"It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place."
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"And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun"
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"I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good."
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"I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll."
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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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"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."
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"I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music."
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"There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath."
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