Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play 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.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.