There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

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.

Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Money makes the man.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

I'm surprised I still have so much hair after all the things I've done with it.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.