The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

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.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.