“When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.”

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

It’s not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I’m Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

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

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

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone’s cool.

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.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.

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

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

If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.

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.

It is a part of the human experience to feel pain do not be afraid to open yourself to it.

Cruelty impresses, people, want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.

She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.

You don’t have to be afraid it’s okay everything will graciously fall into place.

How can I possibly explain that I was just too afraid to love you how can I possibly explain that I still do?

I’m afraid to ask if you’re still in love with me and I think it’s because I already know the answer.

And when I pour myself unafraid like the shatter had a purpose I become the wave.

Don’t be afraid to smoke the competition, because you are the only competition.