When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

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

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

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