I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane t….

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way….

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for ….

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well..

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery..

The only thing to fear is fearlessness..

Love, love will be my strongest weapon.

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice.".

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am..

There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived ….

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes..

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens.".

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious..

Links have become the suburbs of the real world..

I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to t….

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it wh….

Anybody that walks can sing..

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'.

When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through….

Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for on….

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this gu….