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

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.

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

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].

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

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.