There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.

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.

The essence of existence is experience.

You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

It's easier to do horrible things to people if you don't really see them as people.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

What I say is: There is nothing that God is not. So when you ask me what God is for me, I find myself wanting to say: Everything. Everything that is, that ever was, that ever will be.

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.