"What’s alternative? What’s counterculture? What’s cool? Who knows? Who cares? If chasing cool is important to you, you’re an idiot! What can you say about people who wait to be told what to like, what to do and how to do it? It’s like apathy in action. In an insular situation, like college, where they actually reduce the input of ideas on some levels while they sell you on the idea that you’re actually getting more, and then you believe it in the end. It’s so easy. Most of the people who claim to be pursuing a higher education are just as much followers as those they look down on. I see lots of people come out of the systems—educational, social and business—thinking about nobody but themselves, but they’re still able to tell themselves that they’re basically OK, that they just reflect what’s around them. It just goes to show, if you work at it, you can justify anything. Look at the mediocrity and blatantly unacceptable stuff we do to each other and the planet. Look at what we accept in our lives by just saying it’s out of our control, we can’t do anything about it, and it’s not our fault. I’m not into ambition or salesmanship, we’re not some new trend. We never meant or tried to be cool, or be a “buzz” band. It never even entered our minds."

  Kurt Cobain