I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
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.
Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.
Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.