When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

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.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.