It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"

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.

If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.