Dave Grohl Quotes
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Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.
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When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
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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.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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Be someone's light when they are hopeless.
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The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
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There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.
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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
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I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.
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It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
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I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.
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We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
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I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.