I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.
I like Kurt Cobain. [He] is like my dream boyfriend.
The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.
I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.
[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.
I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don’t understand me,
Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.