We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.

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.

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

The path of prayer is forever bright.

Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

I kind of have a phobia for the dentist's office.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.