Dave Grohl revealed that he was afraid to write about Kurt Cobain in his book The Storyteller.
The revelation came during an interview on the Amanpour And Company when the Foo Fighters revealed that he left writing about his friend's death until the end, when the book was almost finished. When asked why, he replied, "Because I was scared."
“It’s one thing to write about an injury you had when you were 12,” he says. “It’s quite another to write about something you almost never talk about, not even to the people closest to you. I mean, I wrote things about this story that I hadn’t even told my closest friends. I was afraid to write all of this.”
Grohl went on to say that he knew people wanted to know about this specific topic in his book because “we all have unanswered questions.” He explained, “So I decided to write about the more emotional part, like the process of loss and grief, and how that’s different for each of us. Yeah, it was hard to write all of that.”
Asked what made Kurt Cobain such a special songwriter, Grohl replied: “I think it was his simplicity, and his beautiful, direct way of speaking, which, to me, is poetry. His personal perspective, the way he saw the world, he was very open to writing about his own pain, and I think millions of people could identify with that and connect with it… It was just him.”
The Storyteller was released on October 5th and is on the bestseller lists in the United States and the United Kingdom. There is no release date yet for Brazil.
Watch the full interview below.
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