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" All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. "

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" I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. "

" I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. "

" My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. "

" My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener. "

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

" I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song. "

" When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. "

" Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip. "

" 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 you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is. "

" Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got. "

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" When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music. "

" 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. "

" There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special. "

" 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. "

" When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. "

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" At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself. "