Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

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.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Wise men are not pacifists

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

If you want to grow, you must learn to let go.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played.