Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

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.

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].