There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

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

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

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

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.