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.

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.

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.

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

Until meeting you, I wasn’t looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I’m kind of looking for a girlfriend.

If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.

Is everything right because the law allows it?