Dave Grohl

“When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.”

“When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.”

“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 musician.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

“Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.”

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

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

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

“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 come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.”

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

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