Dave Grohl

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

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

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

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.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

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

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.

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.

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

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

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.

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

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.