I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

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.

If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.

My eyes were stinging, my body shaking, and my heart seemed to be just aching deep in my chest. (...)I should have let myself smash down the rocks. It would have hurt a whole lot less

Me personally, I just wanted to do that to capture These Days.With DAY-lyt.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.