Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

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.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

Traveling wears me out.