A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

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.

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.