You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

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

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

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

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.