Krist Novoselic Quotes

“This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.”

“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.”

“The more completely you can be yourself, the more fully and consciously you participate in the world.”

“Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.”

“The secret does not lie in the perfection of your path, but in recognizing its imperfection.”

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”

“Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.”

“On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.”

“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.”

“I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn’t say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I wrote about how much I trusted God. I wrote that I was praying for him. I wrote down all the jokes I could remember, which weren’t many.”