All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

No one is you, and that is your power.

If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.