The story behind every song is individual to itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thank God, my name isn’t in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

I believe that the wolf can change everything, if he just want to change.

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

What is matter? Never mind.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.