When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

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 more diseases you know about the sicker you are.

Many people will fight you, not because you are wrong, but because you are different.

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

The Scars come before the Stars.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.