Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

I'm not a betting man.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

I felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet.

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

My twerking skills are for the bedroom, not for the club.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.