I'm not a betting man.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Sometimes you will do good things and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.