I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

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.

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes, friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.