Dave Grohl

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

“My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.”

“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 betwee...”

“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 happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being p...”

“If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.”

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

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

“I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.”

“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...”

“I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on mus...”

“There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.”

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

“You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would co...”

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

“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”

“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 l...”

“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, whe...”

“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...”

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