All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
Dave Grohl

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
Dave Grohl

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
Dave Grohl

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
Dave Grohl

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
Dave Grohl

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.
Dave Grohl

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
Dave Grohl

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
Dave Grohl

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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 Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave Grohl

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

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave Grohl

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.
Dave Grohl

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

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

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.
Dave Grohl

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
Dave Grohl