I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.

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

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

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

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.

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.