I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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.

She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.

I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.

Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ.

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.