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.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

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.

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

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 love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

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 stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

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.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.