How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.