If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Life is anything but predictable.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Nature is not human hearted.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Science is but an image of the truth.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Science is nothing but perception.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Children are all foreigners.

Plato was a bore.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.