10/25/93 - Chicago, IL.

Kurt: “We are stuck in such a rut. We have been labeled. R.E.M. is what? College rock? That doesn’t really stick. Grunge is as potent a term as New Wave. You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be passé. You have to take a chance and hope that either a totally different audience accepts you or the same audience grows with you.”

Interviewer: “And what if the kids just say, “We don’t dig it, get lost.”

Kurt: “Oh, well. [Laughs]. Fuck ‘em.”

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Kurt on the “In Bloom” music video.

“I haven’t had the chance to see if it affects me musically [becoming a father] - I haven’t been writing songs recently. I haven’t attempted to write a song for months. The biggest impact of having a child is personally. I’ve always been chronically depressed, or at least pessimistic, for a part of each day. Now I only have to see Frances for 10 minutes and my spirits are lifted so high I feel like a completely different person.” - Kurt Cobain.

Interviewer: “Is there a certain concept you guys are trying to put across with the cover?”

Krist: “It’s open for interpretation, if you think about a baby swimming through water, dollar bill on a hook, you know that’s the fun part of it, decipher, maybe a person can find a new way of life, they can find; they can take off their clothes and bite into a fishhook in water. [Kurt laughs] See how that feels!”

Interviewer: “I sort of thought it related to the band though, like this is your first jump in the water towards the huge bucks and all that.”

Kurt: “[shakes head] son of a bitch.”

“What we’re doing does have a mission, and the mission is to break things open for other bands in the underground. Basically, to give people a chance to see there’s a lot of good music there.” - Krist Novoselic.

Courtney: “We have a nanny named Jackie. She’s been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I always knew I that I wanted a nanny, pretty much from France’s infancy.”

Kurt: “I always wanted to be a professor. Nanny and the professor.”

Courtney: “Yeah, I get the joke. It’s kind of like your Michael Jackson joke at the MTV Video Music Awards. Kurt sometimes tells bad jokes. Sometimes he tells them to 20 million people.”

“Punk is musical freedom, It’s saying, doing & playing what you want. In dictionary terms ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering & the external world, and that’s close to my definition of punk rock.” - Kurt Cobain.

“”Scentless Apprentice” is about the book, Perfume, by Patrick Süskind. I don’t think that I’ve ever written a song based on a book before. I’m really interested in smells, I think I’d like to own a perfume someday.” - Kurt Cobain.

Reading, 1991.

Kurt: “I’m Kurt, I play guitar and I sing.”

Dave: “And I’m Dave and I play drums; I sing sometimes, but not that often.”

Krist: “I’m Krist, I play bass and I don’t sing, thank God! But I do sing on the record.”

Dave: “Yeah, Krist sings on the record.”

Kurt: “Yeah, he does.”

Krist: “You’ll hear it, you’ll hear it!”

9/23/93 - New York, NY.

‘Nirvana becomes a four piece’, during 1993, Kurt Cobain calls Pat Smear and ask if he’d be interesting in joining his band, Smear immediately accepted and soon after would play his first show with the band [Saturday Night Live]. This photo was taken on the same day as the SNL rehearsals.

“We have a new guitar player. His name is Pat Smear, he was in an LA punk band called The Germs. He’s so great, he’s really, really good.” - Dave Grohl.

Interviewer: “It’s never been entirely clear what this feud with Eddie Vedder was about.”

Kurt Cobain: “There never was one. I slagged them off because I didn’t like their band. I hadn’t met Eddie at the time. It was my fault; I should have been slagging off the record company instead of them. They were marketed — not probably against their will — but without them realizing they were being pushed into the grunge bandwagon.”

“I never wanted to sing, I just wanted to play rhythm guitar — hide in the back and just play. But during those high-school years when I was playing guitar in my bedroom, I at least had the intuition that I had to write my own songs.” - Kurt Cobain.

“When I joined the band, I lived with Kurt for eight months, when I first got there, he had just broken up with a girl and was totally heartbroken. We would sit in his tiny, shoe-box apartment for eight hours at a time without saying a word. For weeks and weeks this happened. Finally one night, we were driving back in the van, and Kurt said, ‘You know, I’m not always like this.’ And I just went, ‘Whewww.’” - Dave Grohl.