You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.
Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
I’m not allergic to fashion. I’m just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they’re going to a funeral or to court.
I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it’s like your grandparents getting divorced – it’s not gonna happen.
I’m told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit – I was sweating honey.
I’m obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher’s pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
From the time that ‘Nevermind’ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.
You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.
I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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.
Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
When you’re recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can’t necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.