“I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.”

—  Kurt Cobain

As quoted in The Daily Of The University Of Washington (1989-05-05).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

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