“When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.”

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it’s changed generations of people.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

It was supposed to be gross, and now it’s gorgeous.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

There’s some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.

What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’

Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.

Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Real love isn’t complicated. It’s easy. It’s comfortable, It’s warm. It feels like home.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days – flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

All too often it’s the very bravest of hearts, that break so easily.