In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

Going shopping with your husband is like his going fishing with the game warden.

Amazing things start happening when we start praying!

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.

I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.