Bacon, Tony (2011). Squier Electrics: 30 Years of Fender's Budget Guitar Brand. Backbeat. ISBN978-1-61713-022-9. „I was talking with Chad Zaemisch, tech for Courtney and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, and we realised that Courtney could be pretty destructive on stage— and that she only had a couple guitars that were still usable. One was a vintage Jaguar that Eric had found for her, and the other an unusual guitar called a Mercury, built by Danny Babbitt and Tim George in Atlanta. She was really attached to the Mercury— but, that said, it didn't keep her from throwing it into the crowd on a regular basis.“
True, Everett (2006). Nirvana: True Story. Music Sales Group, გვ. 46. ISBN978-1-84449-640-2. ციტირების თარიღი: October 29, 2011. which matches the California Birth Index.
Marks, Craig (Feb 1995). „Endless Love“. SPIN. SPIN Media LLC (Vol. 10, No. 11): 46. ციტირების თარიღი: October 29, 2014. ციტატა: „Born in San Francisco, raised in Eugene, all right? [I] spent most of my life in Portland, okay? Patty Schemel is a Marysville native, okay? Born in Marysville, lived in Seattle most of her life, all right? That makes two members of my band Northwestern natives.“