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

“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.'”