Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.

Always have the highest bar for yourself.

I think the producers or whoever's doing the show are tripping so hard. They must be on acid. They live in this, like, weird grass mound and there's this 'sun' in the sky with this little baby's face that's just, like, bleaaargh-aarghagh. It's just so totally insane. It's such an acid thing, man. For kids!

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.