[He] was very talented, but he was passive-aggressive, kind of a whiny white guy, basically.

He had life figured out really young. He knew life wasn't always fair.

[If he] applied the same brain to his music that he applied to his drug-infested life, its reasonable to think that his music may not have made much sense eith…

Rage and aggression were elements for Kurt to play with as an artist, but he was profoundly gentle and intelligent.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away…

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

He is thinner, taller, younger - more boyish-looking - than expected, but he is also the shyest and most nervous human being I have ever seen. He chews not mer…