Dave Grohl is a proud dad. In a new interview, the Foo Fighters rocker raved all about his daughter Violet Grohl’s debut album, which he says she made entirely on her own without any help from him.

In a conversation with his bandmates on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X posted Wednesday (Feb. 25), Dave recalled learning that his child had created an LP and signed a record deal all by herself. “So Violet, my daughter — she’s 19, about to turn 20 — she made this album with a producer named Justin Raisen, and she did it on her own,” he gushed.

“She met the producer, and they would go to the studio every day and make songs, and she would send me songs when she was finished,” he continued. “But I had absolutely nothing to do with this record at all. I had no idea.”

Noting that he “knew that she was looking to sign a record deal,” Dave added that he was still in disbelief when Violet informed him that she had, in fact, done just that. “She was like, ‘Hey, Dad, can I come over for dinner tonight?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, sure. What do you want me to make?'” he shared. “And she came over and told me, ‘I signed my record deal today.’ Like, oh my God. I’m totally uninvolved, and I’m like the dad that wants to be there and know everything, and she’s just totally doing her own thing.”

The Nirvana alum shares Violet — who inked a deal with Republic Records in January — with his wife, director Jordyn Blum, with whom he also has two younger daughters. Grohl is the father of a fourth child as well, admitting in September 2024 that he’d welcomed a baby “outside of my marriage.” (He added at the time that he planned on being a “loving and supportive parent” to the child while working to regain his family’s trust and “earn their forgiveness.”)

The interview comes as the Foo Fighters are gearing up to release new album Your Favorite Toy in April, marking the band’s first LP since 2023’s But Here We Are, which debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. But according to Dave, one of the reasons why he felt motivated to get back in the studio with his own band was Violet, who released debut single “Nausea” in 2021 followed by tracks “THUM” and “Applefish” this past January.

“ record is amazing — she is so incredibly talented,” he said. “It really inspired me to make this one. It really did.”

Watch the band’s full interview below.