And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

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

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.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.