I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.