'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

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.

When we ask God to draw near, what we're really asking is for Him to make us aware of Him.

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.