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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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'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. "

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

" I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better. "