I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

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.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

Latin music is universal.

A chorus is not easy.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Disneyland is a show.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.