I'd love to read a.... smart person discussing Kurt Cobain's comments (like the above, or famously how he felt about Nevermind and Butch Vig's production, etc), his actual music, and his ethos and identity. How those things played together, because from my not very studied and very much armchair perspective I think that Cobain had some weird cognitive dissonance between who he was and who he wanted to be. Or at least, who he felt like he was and how the actual music he made reflected on that.
I can't find the original article in a ten second google but from here referring to some interview about the 10 albums that changed his life where Cobain compares The Clash and The Sex Pistols -
I was thinking about that quote because of what Jimmy correctly said about the fact that Nirvana was a pop band (of course you could correctly apply that label to a great many bands across different genres of rock). I remember that quote because I so strongly disagree with Cobain's top line assertion (The Clash do not suck and in fact are the best, and the Sex Pistols are important but not good) and also because... again without having thought about it too hard, if you sat a head trauma victim who has forgotten everything down with the discographies of the Sex Pistols and The Clash and had him draw a line from Nirvana to one, I think it would go to The Clash. Again, haven't actually thought about that too far, but broadly I think a lot of what Cobain had to say about bands who made music that was accessible is him turning his feelings about himself outward.
also I'm so fucking glad we don't have Kurt Cobain's twitter
also I can't remember if he got specifically into what I'm saying, but Chuck Klosterman may have actually done just that in his recent book on the 90s