Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

Football is all about fans.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

All art is but imitation of nature.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.