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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. "

" There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more. "

" 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. "

" 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man! "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. "

" 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. "

" I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. "

" 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. "