Taylor Hawkins

“In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.”

“Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.”

“I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.”

“Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.”

“The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.”

“The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.”

“The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.”