Kurt Cobain part 2

"The members of Nirvana did not set out to become superstars, they didn't expect to move millions of units, had no way to know that an entire generation was equally tired of being lied to - by their parents, by their government and by the music on the radio. They set out simply to write songs that spoke of their experience of the world and that felt good when played. Loud."
- Grant Alden
"Nevermind was released in September of 1991 to little fanfare and even less expectation. Within months it became the first punk-rock record to ever reach No. 1, eventually selling 10 million copies worldwide. Rife with the conflicts of its songwriter, the music introduced Kurt Cobain to the world. It was violence and retreat, lashing out at the exact moment it soothed the pain. More than the message itself, it was Nevermind's method that captured what its listeners were dying to express. It shrieked."
- David Fricke
"Now, as Nevermind remains rooted in rock's elite Top 10 and the video for the first single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", continues to log hours and hours of MTV airplay, the band remains slightly blinded by the spotlight & amused the single's revulsion of teen apathy is being construed as a youthful call to arms. "I'm looking forward to being older,'" says Novoselic. I've got everything going against youth that I possibly can. I'm married. I'm losing hair. I heard somebody say that Nirvana is against the old generation. That's not right. We're just against that old guard."
- Chris Mundy