There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

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.

Education is the use of knowledge which brings about development and impact many lives

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.