I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
The human element of making music is what’s most important.
What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band: Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.
People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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.