Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck quotes

View Quote He'd always have to, like, do some kind of art, y'know, usually defacing something.  He never had, like, idle hands.  It just came out of him.  He had to express himself.

View Quote Hey, girlShe could bring meI could be moreShe could be freeI don't even careWe could be on freeShe saidShe said

View Quote Humans Are DumbAll Humans Are stupidI'm Ashamed to be A Human

View Quote I ac****ulated quite a healthy complex, not to mention a complexion.  Then one day I discovered the most ultimate form of expression ever: marijuana.  Oh, boy—pot!  I could escape all day long and not have routine nervous breakdowns.

View Quote I am threatened by ridicule

View Quote I guess, like, we were more "friends"?  I didn't know what "falling in love" was, so, I'd never experienced it.  So I just thought, because I liked him I loved him.  And so he got me an engagement ring and we got engaged.  Y'know, it was fun; I mean, it was like, okay, I'm—all those problems are behind me, now; I'm gonna have babies!And I just couldn't wait to get pregnant; I mean, that was the goal.  …  Everything really did happen for a reason.  Kurt had to be born; it was—it was a must.He was the first grandchild on both sides.  Everybody was coming over—constantly.  Can't even describe what a magnet he was; people would just come to him.

View Quote I liked that he was funny.  He made me laugh.  He wasn't afraid to be, you know, goofy or silly.

View Quote I use bits and pieces of other personalities to form my own.

View Quote I would give up everything to have good health.  But then again, I'm always afraid that, if I lost the stomach problem, I might not be as creative.

View Quote If there's anything we're determined to do, it's to give Frances as much love as we can.

View Quote In a community that stresses macho male sexual stories as a highlight of all conversation, I was an underdeveloped, immature little dude that never got laid and was constantly razzed.  "Oh, poor little kid."  It bothered me probably more so because I was horny and frequently had to make up stories like, "Oh, when I went on vacation, I met this chick and we ****ed and she loved it."  Et cetera, et cetera.

View Quote It turned out that pot didn't help me to escape my troubles too well anymore and I was actually enjoying doing rebellious things like stealing booze and busting store windows.  And nothing ever mattered.  I decided within the next month, I'll not sit on my roof and think about jumping, but I'll actually kill myself.  And I wasn't going out of this world without knowing what it was actually like to get laid.  …  And so, during lunch, a rumour started, and by the next day, everyone was waiting for me, to yell and cuss and spit at me, calling me "the **** ****er."  I couldn't handle the ridicule, so I got high and drunk and walked down to the train tracks, and laid down and put two big pieces of cement on my chest and legs and I waited for the eleven o-clock train.  And the train came closer and closer and closer, and it went on the next track besides me instead of over me.  The tension from school had an effect on me, and the train scared me enough to try to rehabilitate myself, and my—my lifting weights and—and mathematics seemed to be improving, so I became less manically depressed, but still never had any friends because I—I hated everyone, for they were so phony.

View Quote It was like nobody—after a couple of weeks, they wanted him out.  I think the sad part of the whole thing is that Kurt just really wanted to be with his mom.

View Quote It's emotional journalism.  It's the closest thing to having Kurt tell his own story in his own words—by his own aesthetic, his own perception of the world.  It paints a portrait of a man attempting to cope with being a human.  When Brett and I first met, I was very specific about what I wanted to see, how I wanted Kurt to be represented.  I told him, "I don't want the mythology of Kurt or the romanticism."  Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever.  The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.  Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age.  He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.

View Quote Jenny Cobain