I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.
I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.
In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.
When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.