“I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, wh...” — Dave Grohl Quote

“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.”

“It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.”

“Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.”

“I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.”

“All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.”