We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.

Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.

Motivation is a state of mind, just like discouragement.

Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.

Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.