Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.

We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions.