I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

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.

Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It's simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.