Dave Grohl Quotes

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

Everyone says that when you have kids, you become crazy.

If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

I don't want to be an old dad.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

A lot of my new material is about being a dad for the first time, about how amazing and stressful it is to be a parent. But don't worry, you will still laugh if you have never had kids.