The following interview is taken from the best of Andrew Denton's award-winning Enough Rope series, ranking among the most penetrating discussions from the 2000s with celebrities, larger-than-life personalities and average Joes. Uncouth, unwashed, inarticulate, egotistical - we all know the rock star image. David Grohl has sold more than 40 million CDs in the last decade and a half, roaming the world to packed arenas everywhere, playing in bands Nirvana and now of course the Foo Fighters. But if what you have just seen makes you reach for the pause button, do it at your own peril. In an industry full of conformism marketed as the opposite, he is a true individual, a man unafraid to be himself