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.

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.

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.

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

All I have besides food is grief.

We have lived and loved together Through many changing years We have shared each other's gladness And wept each other's tears.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

I gave thee what could not be heard What had not been given before The beat of my heart I gave !

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.