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.

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.

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.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

I don't want Sydney ever to feel like my second choice, when I know in my heart that she's the right choice. The only choice.

I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.