Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

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

We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.