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. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

No one is you, and that is your power.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

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