“In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-bellied pigs, another classic Cobainism, though only one of his three claims was true.”

“Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting Boat Ack in red letters on the...”

“He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you cant go wrong, because you cant make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didnt matte...”

“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.”

“In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, “I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-bellied pigs,” another classic Cobainism, though only one of his three claims was true.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”

“To pursue kingdom understanding of what makes its lifestyle work on earth ask specific kingdom questions”

“[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.”

“Success is a lifestyle.”