Always have the highest bar for yourself.

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.

The Lord himself lead the way to the holy heavens.

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave

It's strange how easily we assume that others must be going in the same direction as us.

A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.