Quotes from Dave Grohl

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

No one is you, and that is your power.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.

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

We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.

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

I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

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.

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.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.