“Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.”

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

Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’

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

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

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

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.

What’s the last thing a drummer says in a band? ‘Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?’

Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

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

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

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

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

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.

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.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

We wait always for something that does not come.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.