I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

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.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star, ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

The more I say about God, the less you'll know about God.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.