Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.
My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.
There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.