But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

No band is special, no player royalty.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."