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"In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.""
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction)
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction)
"How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?"
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction)
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction)
"I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry..."
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction)
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction)
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