Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
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.
I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.
Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
I want to party in space because I make alien music.
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
