It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

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.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I get a lot of emails where people are writing me their experiences, how they discovered my music, what they feel... they motivate me to carry on with what I am doing.