Thursday, 20 December 2007
The Dark Side of Kurt Cobain
Advocate - February 1992by Kevin Allman
Advocate: You two don't seem like Sid and Nancy.
Kurt Cobain: It's just amazing that at this point in rock-and-roll history, people are still expecting their rock icons to live out these classic rock archetypes, like Sid and Nancy. To assume that we're just the same because we did heroin for a while-it's pretty offensive to be expected to be like that.
AD: Does it hurt worse when they say bad things about Courtney?
KC: Oh, absolutely. What they said about me is not half as strange as what they've said about her. She doesn't deserve that. She sold 60,000 records, and all of a sudden she's found herself as commercially popular as me, and she's just in a punk rock band. Just because she married me, she's subjected to being as popular as an actress or something.
AD: Who do you trust now?
KC: Uh-no one? [Laughs] I've always kind of kept myself purposely naive and optimistic, and now I've been forced to be really paranoid. Judgemental. Really defensive all the time. It's been hard for me to change my attitude.
AD: You're here in this hotel room. Can you go out?
KC: Yeah. The other night we went shopping at a second-hand store and bought some fuzzy sweaters and some grungewear.
AD: Real grungewear, not the designer kind?
KC: Not Perry Ellis. [Laughs] We were driving around in our Volvo, after buying some grungewear and we realized that we're not neccessarily as big as Guns N' Roses, but we're as popular as them, and we still don't have bodyguards. We still go shopping, we still go to movies and carry on with our lives.
I've always been a paranoid person by nature anyhow, and now I have all these people so concerned with what I say and what I do at all times that it's really hard for me to deal with that. I'm dealing with it a lot better than I would have expected. If I could have predicted what was going to happen to me a few years ago, I definitely wouldn't have opted for this kind of a lifestyle... read more
Source: www.nirvana-music.com
Labels: NIRVANA INTERVIEWS
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