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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

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Mother, Artist, Artistic, Contract

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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Doing, Other, Away, Foreign

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

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Better, Nothing, Like, Complain

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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Challenge, Youth, Duty, Corruption

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

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I Think, Emotional Level, Anytime

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

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Very, High-Quality, Left-Handed

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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Rock, Rap, Introduced, Vital

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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Gun, Bought, Instead, Chose

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

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Here, Like, Too, Naive

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

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Star, Still, Adoration, Ringo

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

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Small, Very, Prolific, Loose

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

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Suffering, Doing, Punk Rock, External

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

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Average, Always, Been, Macho

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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Overwhelmed, Tell, Had, Changed

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

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Hands, Definitely, Beatle, Lennon

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

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Like, Fender, Necks, Guitars

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

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Small, Like, Very, Guitars

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

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Looking Back, Production, Motley

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

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Reason, Some, Against, Addict

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

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Tell, Rather, About, Sitting

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

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Voice, Career, Sometimes, None

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

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Food, Fish, Okay, Feelings

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

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Body, Stomach, Your, Screaming

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

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Found, Carried, Would, Courtney

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

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Childhood, Nine, Had, Case

The worst crime is faking it.

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Crime, Worst, Faking

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

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Strong, Nothing, Like, Besides

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

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Trendy, Even, Ourselves, Escape

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

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Proud, Fact, Though, Gay

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

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Thought, Saved, Becoming, Gay

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