A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

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.

Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].

If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.