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.
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ’cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
It’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.