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Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.