CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

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.

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

What I want done, ain't a job of one. I need many me.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.

Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.

I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.