- Patty Schemel: Thank God for punk rock and those people because you could be whatever you wanted to be.
- Courtney Love: I don't have one rival. Madonna wakes up every day and someone wants to be her. Nobody wants to be me which is so awesome.
- Courtney Love: Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that'd ever been through a broken home. My niche is a lot more specific. It's a lot of females and a lot of gay guys and a few advanced, evolved heterosexual men. Not many but there're a few out there.
- Eric Erlandson: Every drummer I'm starting to realize is a comedian in the closet and Patty was a full on comedian
- Phranc: To me the grunge movement was all about fashion. And you know where the grunge movement took all their fashion from? From the lesbians.
- Patty Schemel: You know I could be going out with Angelina Jolie but if I'm not clean and sober and I'm with Angelina Jolie and there's a guy over there with a crack pipe, I'm be haning out with the bum with the crack pipe... and the shopping cart.
- Melissa Auf der Maur: Ultimately you're committed to each other and love each other. Being in a band is just this unspoken unconditional love with all the weirdness that comes with it.