For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

No one is you, and that is your power.

If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

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.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

If you come from Spain, you have to play football.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.