Quotes by Dave Grohl

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

“I dont like to have people do stuff for me. I dont like to have runners go out and get me meals - its just not normal.”

“that dude who played drums in Nirvana.”

“Going out and playing music - thats what I do. I dont do much else.”

“Im big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. Its disgustingly domestic. Im big on Costco.”

“Im obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager,”

“Usually after making a record, you imagine it to be your last, ... You just feel tapped out. This time, for whatever reason, this album inspired me to keep writing. It made me feel like we still have good albums in us, that were still capable of making good records for years to come.”

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

“Wed pull into small towns, and thousands of people would come to be rescued by this man,”

“I dont really know how to explain it, ... I think that those are just the type of songs that I imagine standing onstage and singing for the rest of my life. Each one of them means a lot to me. Its important I have those songs on the set list because they keep me up onstage. Im not much of a storyteller. I am, but I get tired of the same story after a few spins. I cant really imagine writing an album of urban folk tales.”

Theres 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.

You will only be great at the things you love to do.Dont pursue a career in something you hate to do.

Thats one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and theyll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

Theres a reason why the Foo Fighters dont blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, thats hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasnt really come up, or it just hasnt felt right.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, its a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

Im happy that I have my family, and Im 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 pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothings changed, really.

Because you have things like American Idol and youve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, its easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

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 dont. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

It was that famous joke: Whats the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? Hey, I wrote a song.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didnt have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.