A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.