"There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East."

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Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.

— Dave Grohl