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

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.

I'm not a betting man.

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.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

There is always a light somewhere in the darkness to guide you to happiness.

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!