I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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.

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.

Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

When you doubt the existence of God, you essentially doubt your own existence because we were all made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.