Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.