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

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.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

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

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 that there’s more.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.

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

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

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

No one is you, and that is your power.

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they’re important.