"In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life."

“I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.”

“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.”

“I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could.”

“I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.”

“There's some people on the pitch... they think it's all over... it is now!”

Source : Television broadcast in final moments of World Cup soccer championship, 30 July 1966

“The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.