“Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.”

“I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.”

“I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.”

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

“There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.”

“It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.”

“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”

“If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.”

“Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!”

“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.”

“It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'”