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Kurt Cobain being interviewed at the Royal Fromentin Hotel.

Paris, France.

November 21st, 1991.

Photos by Pascal Julou.

an excerpt from this interview —

Interviewer: “But we were really amazed to see that many people like ‘Nevermind,’ people like our friends who like pop music, indie pop, all this stuff, they are quite mad about Nirvana, and we were surprised because if you think of it two years ago, you wouldn't believe it. Were you expecting it?”
KC: “Oh, no, absolutely not, not to the scale that it's gone to. Definitely. We were just hoping to carry on what we've been doing for the past two years. You know, it's been a long since we put out an album. We were aware of the anticipation of the album because every time we played our audience was getting bigger. But we had no idea it would go platinum, you know? It’s twice as surprising to us because there was no real collective promotional scheme or anything like that. Like, Geffen didn’t decide to put a whole bunch of money into promotion and really push it, you know? There were no billboards or a lot of ads, it was very organic.”
Interviewer: “Do you think the fact that you have support from your family and your friends makes you improve in your lyrics? Because I think they're far more improving in the new LP. You know?”
KC: “Mmm, yeah, I imagine it has. Yeah, I guess a few years ago I was a lot more frustrated obviously, it comes out in the songs a lot more, in the lyrics because there wasn't much appreciation for what we were doing at the time. You know, it's not like we were ever searching for success, just appreciation from some people saying that ‘we like what you’re doing and you affect us,’ in a way, you know? So within the last couple of years, I've been able to throw in a lot more happier and different types of emotion, other than just anger and aggression all the time.”