Quotes by Kurt Cobain

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

It's better to burn out than to fade away

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

It's better to be hated for the person you are, than to be loved for the person you're not.

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU!

Rather be dead than cool.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

I guess, in a way, anyone with enough ambition to create and not take away is someone who deserves respect.

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

I just can't believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.