Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.
We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.
I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
