Dave Grohl

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

— Dave Grohl

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

— Dave Grohl

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect,

— Dave Grohl

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that…

— Dave Grohl

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors -…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the…

— Dave Grohl

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

— Dave Grohl

There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music,…

— Dave Grohl

People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's…

— Dave Grohl

When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do…

— Dave Grohl

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of…

— Dave Grohl

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry.…

— Dave Grohl

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know…

— Dave Grohl

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was…

— Dave Grohl

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have…

— Dave Grohl

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down…

— Dave Grohl

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil…

— Dave Grohl

Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I…

— Dave Grohl

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for…

— Dave Grohl

Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric…

— Dave Grohl

I think the producers or whoever's doing the show are tripping so hard. They must be on acid. They live in this,…

— Dave Grohl

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40…

— Dave Grohl

After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of…

— Dave Grohl

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's…

— Dave Grohl

I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting…

— Dave Grohl

The human element of making music is what's most important.

— Dave Grohl

There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

— Dave Grohl

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

— Dave Grohl

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

— Dave Grohl

Always have the highest bar for yourself.

— Dave Grohl

Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

— Dave Grohl

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

— Dave Grohl

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

— Dave Grohl