I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

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 think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

I don’t just listen to rap.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

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.

Philosophy is the highest music.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I love movement. I love moshing.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

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

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.