President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he made a “very risky decision” in deciding to run in the 2024 presidential election, adding that he would have had “a very nasty life” had he lost that race.

For years, a rumor has circulated online that Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana, predicted the election of U.S. President Donald Trump in an alleged quote from 1993, the year before Cobain died.

The president’s remarks were a surprisingly public acknowledgment that he had campaigned for his freedom as much as for the White House itself.