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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. "

" 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. "

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

" When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. "

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

" Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. "

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" 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. "

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. "

" I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. "

" If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia. "