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

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" Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children. "

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" Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition. "

" There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll. "

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

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

" I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out. "

" People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be. "

" You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band. "

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

" 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. "

" I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician. "

" It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band. "

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Change The World

" Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life. "

" I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last. "

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

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

" I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. "

" When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? "

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" Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture. "