Dad rocker Dave Grohl
Posted: February 3, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Dad rocker Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl says fatherhood has changed the way he makes music.
The Foo Fighters frontman – who has two daughters, Violet, three, and nine-month-old Harper, with wife Jordyn – admits the songs he writes are a lot more emotional because he has a different outlook on life.
He said: ‘It’s changed everything that I do. When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.’
The 41-year-old rocker also refuses to tour for long periods of time because he hates being away form his family.
He explained to Time magazine: ‘I used to tour nine months out of the year. Now I don’t like being away from my kids for more than 12 days.’
Although he loves being a dad, Dave has previously admitted Violet’s birth had been the ‘scariest’ moment of his life.
He said: ‘I went to the birth. I knew the science. I could’ve f***ing delivered the baby myself at that point. I’d desensitised myself by watching those stupid TV shows with the graphic birth.
‘But I was nervous. It was a sketchy birth because her cord was around her neck and there were a couple of times when her heartbeat dropped. That’s the most frightened I’ve ever been in my life.’
