“I never wanted to sing”

“It was so fast and explosive,” he says in a sleepy, gravelly voice of his first crisis of confidence following the ballistic success of Nevermind. “I didn’t know how to deal with it. If there was a Rock Star 101 course, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.”

— Kurt Cobain, in an interview with Rolling Stone from January 1994. In Utero had come out a few months earlier, and Cobain would take his own life a few months later. [via]