It's Nice When People Are Happy To

I Think People Should Feel Encouraged To Be Themselves.

I Think Maybe What Happened Was The Convenience Of Technology Overshadowed The Experience Of Holding An Album In Your Hands, And Sitting On Your Bedroom Floor, And Staring At A Picture Of John Lennon Or Gene Simmons Or Johnny Rotten. That Tangible Experience Can Sometimes Become An Even More Emotional Experience, Because It's Really Happening.

Always Have The Highest Bar For Yourself. Wake Up Everyday And No Matter How Crappy You Feel, Want To Change Something For The Better. Do Something That Makes Someone Happy. Create Something That Inspires Someone. Be Someone's Light When They Are Hopeless.

I'm Happy That I Have My Family, And I'm Happy That I Had Virginia, Where I Grew Up, To Retreat To Any Time I Felt Overwhelmed. Whenever There Were Times When I Felt Like The Rug Was Being Pulled Out From Under Me And I Was Floating In This Crazy Space, I Would Stop And Go Back To That Neighborhood And Realize Nothing's Changed, Really.

I Owe Everything To Nirvana. But I Can't Let That Overshadow The Future. For The First Few Years, I Didn't Even Want To Talk About Nirvana. Partly Because It Was Just Painful To Talk About Losing Kurt But Also Because I Wanted The Foo Fighters To Mean Something.