“When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.”

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!’

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 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.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

There’s something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

I can’t find words to express my happiness. Here there is no longer anything but God. He is All; He suffices and we live by Him alone.

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.