When asked to formally comment on Cobain’s death, Buckley unleashed what sounded like a anti-corporate manifesto. ‘You gotta make your own life,’ he said. ‘You can’t leave it up to the leaders. Jesus, JFK, Kurt Cobain, they all got fucked up. Kurt didn’t feel loved, or maybe he didn’t know how to recognise it. But it won’t ever happen with a leader; independence has to come or you’ll die. You’ll end up like someone’s puppet and you’ll be gone like a chump before you’re 30.’
— A pure drop: the life of Jeff Buckley, by Jeff Apter.
