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"Krist and Kurt had a legendary lifetime connection. Those guys were soulmates. They'd been through so much together, from Aberdeen to the success of 'Nevermind'. They fuckin' shared everything, and they were the kind of friends that didn't have to talk to each other--they just knew."
-Dave, Rolling Stone 2005
27 May 2020
Interviewer: And you used to spray-paint GOD IS GAY on people's trucks?
Kurt: That was a lot of fun. The funniest thing about that was not actually the act but the next morning. I'd get up early in the morning to walk through the neighborhood that I'd terrorized to see the aftermath. That was the worst thing I could have spray-painted on their cars. Nothing else would have been more effective.
Aberdeen was depressing, and there were a lot of negative things about it, but it was really fun to fuck with people all the time.
(The Advocate, 1993)
Interviewer: "Do you still have dreams about Kurt?"
Krist: "I do. And it's beautiful! It's just loving. You know when you lose somebody and you see them in a dream and you just feel all this love? It's nice."
(7 Oct 2015 FOX Business Network Interview)
"Kurt was so many different things. He was funny or shy or this outgoing, larger-than-life persona. He could be sweet or he could be fucking wicked. He could be intimidating."
-Dave, Rolling Stone 2005
Kurt: I really don't know why. I like to wear dresses because they're comfortable. If I could wear a sheet, I would. I don't know what to say, if I said we do it to be subversive then that would be a load of shit, because men in bands wearing dresses isn't controversial anymore.
MM: Do you approve of cross-dressing?
Kurt: Of course I do. Of course. Men shouldn't wear a dress because it's feminist, particularly, but because it's comfortable. Sometimes my penis will literally fall asleep or feel as if it's dropped right off because it's been constricted by wearing tight Levi's, and I'll have to wear baggy pants or a dress instead.
(Melody Maker, date unknown)
"We were always serious about recording and rehearsing. We would drive sixty miles to rehearsal. We would rehearse in Seattle, starting at eleven o'clock at night. I lived in Tacoma, Kurt lived in Olympia and Chad Channing lived in Bainbridge Island. We all came together every night--do a lot of driving and crash in Bainbridge or Tacoma.
We also rehearsed in Tacoma. We found this barn--someone had made it into a studio. It was warm, and we weren't disturbed. There weren't other bands bleeding through the walls. We had the music to ourselves. And Kurt was always kicking songs around. He'd be in his apartment, cranking out riffs and vocal melodies, then bring them up: "Hey, check this one out." We'd put it into the grinder and see what came out the other end."
-Krist, Rolling Stone 13 Sept. 2001
"I can't think of one show that I ever played with that band where we walked offstage and said, 'That was great.' Never one. Only two times did I get any reassurance from Kurt. Once when I joined the band, in 1990, we were drunk at some disco in England, and Kurt came up and said, 'I'm so glad you're in this band. I'm so glad you're down-to-earth.' I was like, 'Wow!' The next time was in late '93 or early '94 when I came home and turned on my message machine and had a message from Kurt that said, 'Y'know, I was just sitting here listening to 'In Utero', and your drumming is so awesome. You did such a great job!' I was like, 'Wow!' Those two things were spread out by about four years [laughs]."
-Dave, Rolling Stone 2005
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