I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
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.
Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?
There are times when I feel like I’m a traveling minister. I’m trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.
No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
Always have the highest bar for yourself.
The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‘I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,’ and I actually meant it.
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
I’m big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It’s disgustingly domestic. I’m big on Costco.
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.