Nirvana interview (June 24, 1989 - Los Angeles, CA, US)

• Interviewer: Your album sounds really different than you do live, did you do that on purpose?
• Chris: Lack of funds… why is it different?
• Interviewer: It was just a lot mellower, it doesn’t really slap you in the face it just kind of kicks you.
• Kurt: We didn't do hardly any guitar overdubs and we recorded it in three days.
• Jason: The studio is a pretty sterile environment, you can t get really psyched in the studio, but live it’s different. It was really new material too, we just decided to go out on a limb and record 5 new songs.
• Chad: We wrote down the lyrics on the way to the studio.
• Chris: We were trying to be spontaneous.
• Interviewer: Was the single the same way?
• Chris: No, actually those were older songs.
• Kurt: We’re really new in the studio, we never recorded before.
• Interviewer: Didn’t you have enough songs that you play live to put on the album?
• Chris: Oh yeah, yeah. But we wanted to do new songs. We had a demo tape that was going around Seattle and we were going to put all of those songs on the album but we just decided to do new songs. It was just a whim. We make decisions like this (retarded voice) "Yeah, let’s do it".
• Chad: We’re the most indecisive band in the world.
• Chris: All four of us have been walking around here for an hour deciding what to do.
• Kurt: If we smoked pot we’d be dead.
• Chad: We’d be hopeless then…
• Interviewer: You look like a bunch of pot smoking…Was there a reason for not smoking pot?
• Kurt: I kinda reached my end of things to do as far as acid and pot and stuff, I just reached a maximum on that stuff.
• Chris: It's fun for awhile but I just watched my friends deteriorate until they were virtually brain-dead.
• Kurt: Once you go past the learning experience, then you go into the downhill part. I never took drugs as an escape, I always took drugs for learning.
• Chris: I just did it every day for a looonnnng time…