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

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

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.