Kurt Cobain
No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth-fueled by passion. A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age, fuckin' cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes, they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special!
Kurt Cobain
This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me.
Kurt Cobain
Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other and tend to their home repairs and children while never missing their true mission. To scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.
Kurt Cobain
I feel compelled to say fuck you, fuck you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you'll ever know. So again I say fuck you although this phrase has totally lost its meaning. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!
Billie Joe Armstrong
Hey, it's the kids who are going to buy our records and they're not going to read things written in Entertainment Weekly anyway. Critics never really want to like my band. I think they have this thing up their asses that we are a lesser band now. They feel we weren't the originators of punk rock or we are not cool or whatever. So everything that comes from these people sounds somehow backhanded, like with the Spin piece.
Billie Joe Armstrong
I approach playing acoustic guitar as more of a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
Billie Joe Armstrong
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
Billie Joe Armstrong
If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
Billie Joe Armstrong
- Punk
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I choose for myself.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it?
Gerard Way
You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream FUCK YOU!
Gerard Way
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. Like I love you all.
Gerard Way
- talking about a model from an art class
I became very observant, a watcher. Very creepy, I would say. I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective. There was this real beautiful model once, but she had this scar on her stomach and I made sure to pay a lot of attention to that. I thought that made her more attractive in a way.
Gerard Way
Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly, and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.
